Today’s Headlines
Republicans Won’t Even Give Obama’s Awesome Budget a Formal Hearing (MSNBC) Key Democrat Embraces Obama’s Plan for an Oil Tax (The Hill) Yonah Freemark: How to Build a Streetcar that Works (NYT) An “Invisible Pandemic” on Georgia’s Roads (Georgia Today) Telegraph: Why Do Drivers Get Away with (Attempted) Murder? Obama’s Budget Includes $17 Million for … Continued
8:59 AM EST on February 10, 2016
- Republicans Won’t Even Give Obama’s Awesome Budget a Formal Hearing (MSNBC)
- Key Democrat Embraces Obama’s Plan for an Oil Tax (The Hill)
- Yonah Freemark: How to Build a Streetcar that Works (NYT)
- An “Invisible Pandemic” on Georgia’s Roads (Georgia Today)
- Telegraph: Why Do Drivers Get Away with (Attempted) Murder?
- Obama’s Budget Includes $17 Million for Jacksonville Bus Rapid Transit (Metro Jacksonville)
- Feds May Start Regulating Megabus Safety (The Hill)
- How the Waze App Is Changing Driving (Men’s Journal)
- Michigan Might Raise Speed Limit to 80 MPH (Mlive.com)
- San Francisco Set to Replace LOS with VMT (SF Planning Department)
- Form Based Zoning Slowly Taking Over Connecticut (The Mirror)
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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