Today’s Headlines
Planners in Maine Say They Were Forced to Approve Highway Project (Bangor Daily News) Inspectors: 10 “Segments of Concern” on Metro’s Six Rail Lines (WaPo) New Map Shows the Most Stressful Places for Cyclists in D.C. (WaPo) Salt Lake City Fire Department Assures Residents Street With Bike Lanes Is Safe (Salt Lake Trib) Caltrans Launches … Continued
8:53 AM EDT on April 7, 2016
- Planners in Maine Say They Were Forced to Approve Highway Project (Bangor Daily News)
- Inspectors: 10 “Segments of Concern” on Metro’s Six Rail Lines (WaPo)
- New Map Shows the Most Stressful Places for Cyclists in D.C. (WaPo)
- Salt Lake City Fire Department Assures Residents Street With Bike Lanes Is Safe (Salt Lake Trib)
- Caltrans Launches Employee Bike-Share Program (Mass Transit Magazine)
- Tucson Looks to Build on Success of Intown Growth, Streetcar (Arizona Public Media)
- World Health Organization: Build Bike Infrastructure to Control Diabetes (Bike Biz)
- Wired: Cities Not Ready for Self-Driving Cars
- Torontoist Improves on City’s “Tone Deaf” Pedestrian Safety Posters
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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