Today’s Headlines
Subways in the Northeast Are Showing Their Age (NYT) What D.C. Commuters Can Expect When Metro Shutdowns Begin (WaPo) Delaware May Increase Fine for Hitting a Pedestrian to $550 (Delaware Online) Austin Mayor to Intro Transpo Bond Proposal, Includes Protected Bike Lanes (Austin Chronicle) One in Four Traffic Crashes in Minnesota Caused by Distracted Driving … Continued
9:03 AM EDT on May 26, 2016
- Subways in the Northeast Are Showing Their Age (NYT)
- What D.C. Commuters Can Expect When Metro Shutdowns Begin (WaPo)
- Delaware May Increase Fine for Hitting a Pedestrian to $550 (Delaware Online)
- Austin Mayor to Intro Transpo Bond Proposal, Includes Protected Bike Lanes (Austin Chronicle)
- One in Four Traffic Crashes in Minnesota Caused by Distracted Driving (Star Tribune)
- Is Google Losing Interest in Self-Driving Cars? (Transportationist)
- Why Americans in the 1950s Were Scared of Suburbia (Curbed)
- Third Safety Report to Study Cincinnati’s 2.2-Mile Protected Bike Lane (Enquirer)
- Reno’s Mayor Wants More Green Bike Lanes (Kolo News Now)
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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