Today’s Headlines

8:58 AM EDT on May 25, 2016

Study: Walkable Neighborhoods Cut Obesity, Diabetes 10 Percent (NYT)
Opening Date for Cincinnati Streetcar Set for This Fall (WMUB)
Milwaukee Area Planners Predict BRT Will Attract an Additional 9,000 Riders (Wauwatoosa Now)
Twin Cities Light Rail Plan in Doubt After State Punted on Funding (Star Tribune)
Gainsville Sun to FDOT: Don't Expand Underperforming, Sprawl-Inducing Toll Road
Business Owners in San Diego Up in Arms Over Bike Lane Plan That Would Reduce Parking (CBS 8)
The Stranger: Seattle Betrays Cyclists by Ignoring Dangerous Streets
Salt Lake City Changing Zoning to Promote Streetcar Ridership (Tribune)
Racial Divide Over Wake County's Transit Plans (Indy Week)
Forbes Writer Compares Light Rail to Landlines

Angie Schmitt is the author of Right of Way: Race, Class and the Silent Epidemic of Pedestrian Deaths in America, and the former editor of Streetsblog USA.

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