Today’s Headlines
MBTA Approves Boston’s Green Line Extension (Globe) Central Florida Will Use Gas Tax Funds for Transit (Fox 35 Orlando) Pre-Construction Work Begins on Albuquerque’s Bus Rapid Transit, Despite Lawsuits (KRQE) Washington Post Scares People Off Their Bikes Austin Chronicle Writer Takes on Victim-Blaming Culture Around Traffic Collisions Buffalo News: Bike Lanes Are Squeezing Drivers Neighborhood Walkability, Body … Continued
9:09 AM EDT on May 12, 2016
- MBTA Approves Boston’s Green Line Extension (Globe)
- Central Florida Will Use Gas Tax Funds for Transit (Fox 35 Orlando)
- Pre-Construction Work Begins on Albuquerque’s Bus Rapid Transit, Despite Lawsuits (KRQE)
- Washington Post Scares People Off Their Bikes
- Austin Chronicle Writer Takes on Victim-Blaming Culture Around Traffic Collisions
- Buffalo News: Bike Lanes Are Squeezing Drivers
- Neighborhood Walkability, Body Mass Index More Closely Linked for Men (MD Magazine)
- Student Safety Project Results in New Bike Lanes in Sacramento (Sacramento Bee)
- A Pedestrian Scramble in Georgia (WMAZ)
- Austin Considering Deregulating the Cab Industry (Statesman)
- Milwaukee Streetcar to Have Dedicated Lanes (Business Journal)
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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