Today’s Headlines
Feds Ease Highway Standards, Increase Local Control for Slower Roads (Houston Chronicle) Barbara Boxer: No Positive Train Control Without a Highway Bill (The Hill) Twin Cities Considers Discount Transit Fares for Low-Income Residents (Star-Trib) Augusta, GA, Looks to Add Transit Service and Better Bus Stops (WAGT) Study: Millennials May Leave the Bay Area Due to … Continued
9:00 AM EDT on October 8, 2015
- Feds Ease Highway Standards, Increase Local Control for Slower Roads (Houston Chronicle)
- Barbara Boxer: No Positive Train Control Without a Highway Bill (The Hill)
- Twin Cities Considers Discount Transit Fares for Low-Income Residents (Star-Trib)
- Augusta, GA, Looks to Add Transit Service and Better Bus Stops (WAGT)
- Study: Millennials May Leave the Bay Area Due to Housing Costs (Urban Land Institute)
- Alcoa Makes a Path for Its Davenport Plant Employees to Bike to Work (Quad City Biz Journal)
- Bike Infrastructure Is an Election Issue in Delaware County (Delco Times)
- Video: China’s Insane Traffic Jams (Gizmodo)
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.
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