Today’s Headlines
Will Boston’s Green Line Extension Be Canceled? (Globe) Smart Growth America Urges Readers to Press Lawmakers to Fully Fund TIGER Uber’s New Service Sounds a Lot Like a Bus (TechCrunch) What the New Transportation Bill Does for Complete Streets (Next City) DC Considering the Idaho Stop (WTOP) Atlanta City Council Approves Plan for 50 Miles of Streetcars … Continued
9:00 AM EST on December 10, 2015
- Will Boston’s Green Line Extension Be Canceled? (Globe)
- Smart Growth America Urges Readers to Press Lawmakers to Fully Fund TIGER
- Uber’s New Service Sounds a Lot Like a Bus (TechCrunch)
- What the New Transportation Bill Does for Complete Streets (Next City)
- DC Considering the Idaho Stop (WTOP)
- Atlanta City Council Approves Plan for 50 Miles of Streetcars (AJC)
- Embarrassing History of Mismanagement at Washington’s Metro (WaPo)
- New Jobs Report Is Good News for Cities (Jed Kolko)
- Washington Bikes Merges with Cascade Bicycle Club (Cascade)
- DC Will Require Drivers to Yield to Buses Reentering the Lane (WAMU)
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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