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 (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)
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