Today's Headlines

Today’s Headlines

Closure of Seattle’s Alaskan Way Viaduct Didn’t Cause Carmaggedon (Crosscut) Anthony Foxx Warns He May Shut Down D.C. Metro to Prevent Another Fire (Reuters) How Likely Is It That Boston’s Green Line Extension Will Get Built? (Globe) Rural Lawmakers Hold Up Bill That Would Open the Door to North Carolina Light Rail (WRAL) Pennsylvania Gov Tom Wolf: “Playing … Continued

By Angie Schmitt

8:53 AM EDT on May 11, 2016

Closure of Seattle’s Alaskan Way Viaduct Didn’t Cause Carmaggedon (Crosscut)
Anthony Foxx Warns He May Shut Down D.C. Metro to Prevent Another Fire (Reuters)
How Likely Is It That Boston’s Green Line Extension Will Get Built? (Globe)
Rural Lawmakers Hold Up Bill That Would Open the Door to North Carolina Light Rail (WRAL)
Pennsylvania Gov Tom Wolf: “Playing Field Stacked Against Cities” (Inquirer)
Will Minnesota Chip in For Twin Cities’ Third Light Rail Line? (Star Tribune)
Oakland Opens a Parking-Protected Bike Lane (CBS SF)
Columbus to Construct 25-Story “Millennial Tower” on a Parking Lot (Dispatch)
Sprawl and Waukesha, Wisconsin’s Big Great Lakes Water Grab (The Atlantic)
Are Families Choosing Unwalkable Suburbs, or Settling for Them? (City Lab)

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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