Today’s Headlines
U.S. DOT’s Smart City Challenge Wraps Up (WaPo, Austin Chron) Tampa Abandons Latest Transpo Tax Plan (Tampa Bay Times) Atlanta Kicks Off Bike-Share With Downtown Ride (AJC) Young Affluent People Are Moving to Urban Cores, and Not Just on the Coasts (WSJ) Rival Plans Emerge to Expand Kansas City Transit (KC Star) Grants Boost TOD Across Connecticut (CT … Continued
By
Katie Pearce
9:01 AM EDT on June 10, 2016
- U.S. DOT’s Smart City Challenge Wraps Up (WaPo, Austin Chron)
- Tampa Abandons Latest Transpo Tax Plan (Tampa Bay Times)
- Atlanta Kicks Off Bike-Share With Downtown Ride (AJC)
- Young Affluent People Are Moving to Urban Cores, and Not Just on the Coasts (WSJ)
- Rival Plans Emerge to Expand Kansas City Transit (KC Star)
- Grants Boost TOD Across Connecticut (CT Post)
- Clevelanders Prep for Life After Transit Cuts (Plain Dealer)
- Milwaukee BRT Plan Skirts the Usual Fervent Transit Opposition (Milwaukee Biz Journal)
- LA Times Op-Ed: Let’s Try Walking as a First-Mile, Last-Mile Solution
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