Today's Headlines

Today’s Headlines

Boston City Council Votes to Lower Speed Limit to 20 MPH on Most Streets (Universal Hub) Google, Uber, and Ford Launch Self-Driving Car Lobby (Tech Wire) D Magazine: Does Texas’s Newly Free-Flowing SH 161 Disprove “Induced Demand?” Driver Critically Injures 6-Year-Old Akron Boy on Bike; Victim “Won’t Be Cited” (Plain Dealer) Seattleites Disappointed With New Five-Year Bike Plan … Continued

By Angie Schmitt

9:01 AM EDT on April 28, 2016

Boston City Council Votes to Lower Speed Limit to 20 MPH on Most Streets (Universal Hub)
Google, Uber, and Ford Launch Self-Driving Car Lobby (Tech Wire)
D Magazine: Does Texas’s Newly Free-Flowing SH 161 Disprove “Induced Demand?”
Driver Critically Injures 6-Year-Old Akron Boy on Bike; Victim “Won’t Be Cited” (Plain Dealer)
Seattleites Disappointed With New Five-Year Bike Plan (The Stranger)
Uber Preparing to Exit Houston Because of Its Rules (Texas Tribune)
Arkansas Posts Depressing Videos of Downtown Little Rock Highway Widening Plan (Arkansas Online)
Akron’s New Planning Director Wants to Put the City’s Roads on a Diet (Crain’s Cleveland)
WSJ: Increase Housing Density to Lower Rents in Cities
The “Car-Free” Neighborhood Design for a German Suburb (Fast Company)

Angie Schmitt

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.

Today's Headlines

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