Today’s Headlines
California High-Speed Rail Delayed for Four Years (Politico) N+1 Explores the Ethical Dimensions of Automated Cars SF Pitches Anthony Foxx $149 Million Plan for Autonomous Buses (Examiner) An Urbanizing Suburb Points to Shift in the Twin Cities (Star Tribune) Wall Street Journal: Post-Recession City Boom Slowing; USA Today: Big Cities Continue to Grow Raleigh Okays Plan for 10 … Continued
8:55 AM EDT on May 19, 2016
- California High-Speed Rail Delayed for Four Years (Politico)
- N+1 Explores the Ethical Dimensions of Automated Cars
- SF Pitches Anthony Foxx $149 Million Plan for Autonomous Buses (Examiner)
- An Urbanizing Suburb Points to Shift in the Twin Cities (Star Tribune)
- Wall Street Journal: Post-Recession City Boom Slowing; USA Today: Big Cities Continue to Grow
- Raleigh Okays Plan for 10 Miles of Bike Lanes, Some Protected (News Observer)
- Wake County, NC, Light Rail Proposal Sails Through First Council Vote (News Observer)
- Austin Light Rail Plan Might Go Back to Ballot (Fox 7 Austin)
- Does Congestion Pricing Disperse Jobs? Not If You Have Good Transit (CityLab)
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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