Today’s Headlines
Anthony Foxx Presses Congress to Spend $98 Billion on Transportation This Year (The Hill) Albuquerque Meeting Over Bus Rapid Transit “Erupts in Chaos” (ABQ Journal) Houston Press: Houston’s New Bike Lane Plan “in the Hands of Drivers” Al Jazeera America: Tourism Bias in Transit Projects in New Orleans Post-Katrina Ann Arbor Moving Ahead on Light Rail … Continued
8:56 AM EST on February 25, 2016
- Anthony Foxx Presses Congress to Spend $98 Billion on Transportation This Year (The Hill)
- Albuquerque Meeting Over Bus Rapid Transit “Erupts in Chaos” (ABQ Journal)
- Houston Press: Houston’s New Bike Lane Plan “in the Hands of Drivers”
- Al Jazeera America: Tourism Bias in Transit Projects in New Orleans Post-Katrina
- Ann Arbor Moving Ahead on Light Rail (Mlive.com)
- Syracuse Examining Light Rail or Bus Rapid Transit (WAER)
- Dangerous Las Vegas Street to Get Makeover for Pedestrian Safety (Review Journal)
- Study: Nine in 10 Drivers Admit to Risky Behavior Behind the Wheel (WTOP)
- Which Professions Have the Longest Commutes? (Priceonomics)
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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