Today’s Headlines
U.S. DOT, Sidewalk Labs Team Up to Tackle Urban Congestion (NYT, Ars Technica) Poor DC Residents Were Hardest Hit By Metro Shutdown (GGW) Google Wants Feds to Clear Roadblocks for Driverless Car Tech (AP) Atlanta Mayor Expands on New $2.5B Transit Plans (AJC) Boston’s T Explores Ways to Mitigate Late-Night Service Cancellation (Boston Globe) Ride-Sharing Does Enhance Transit… For Rich People … Continued
By
Katie Pearce
8:56 AM EDT on March 18, 2016
- U.S. DOT, Sidewalk Labs Team Up to Tackle Urban Congestion (NYT, Ars Technica)
- Poor DC Residents Were Hardest Hit By Metro Shutdown (GGW)
- Google Wants Feds to Clear Roadblocks for Driverless Car Tech (AP)
- Atlanta Mayor Expands on New $2.5B Transit Plans (AJC)
- Boston’s T Explores Ways to Mitigate Late-Night Service Cancellation (Boston Globe)
- Ride-Sharing Does Enhance Transit… For Rich People (Wired)
- The Urban Millennial Boom Must Have an End Date, Right? (CityLab)
- Grist’s Take: When Millennials Move to Burbs, It’s Not Necessarily Because They Want To
- San Diego’s Car2Go Switches From Electric to Gas (SD Union-Tribune)
- Why American Planners Are Paying Attention to Bogota’s BRT (Fronteras)
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