Today's Headlines

Today’s Headlines

Driving in America Is Most Dangerous for People With Less Education (WaPo) Gallup: People Living in Cities Most Optimistic About Economy States Taking on More Debt to Build Highways (FHWA) Dallas Staff Blame Peds for Skyrocketing Deaths; Council Member Blames Design (Morning News) Anti-Light Rail Measure Will Stand in North Carolina Until at Least Year End (WRAL.com) CityLab: … Continued

By Angie Schmitt

8:58 AM EDT on October 1, 2015

Driving in America Is Most Dangerous for People With Less Education (WaPo)
Gallup: People Living in Cities Most Optimistic About Economy
States Taking on More Debt to Build Highways (FHWA)
Dallas Staff Blame Peds for Skyrocketing Deaths; Council Member Blames Design (Morning News)
Anti-Light Rail Measure Will Stand in North Carolina Until at Least Year End (WRAL.com)
CityLab: North Carolina State Lawmakers “Preempting” Local Governance
Las Vegas Needs Light Rail on the Same Corridor It Built a Monorail (LV Review-Journal)
California to Offer Poor Drivers With Unpaid Traffic Fines Amnesty (ABC News)
Scientists: Biking or Walking to Work Is the Best (Gizmodo)

Angie Schmitt

Angie is a Cleveland-based writer with a background in planning and newspaper reporting. She has been writing about cities for Streetsblog for six years.

Today's Headlines

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