Today’s Headlines
Poor People Pay for Parking Even When They Can’t Afford a Car (WaPo) Law Requiring Michigan Cities to Pay for Highways Through Them May Be Overturned (Detroit News) DC’s Purple Line Gets $875 Million TIFIA Loan (Bethesda Magazine) Transit Industry Facing a “Workforce Cliff” With Retirements Looming (RT&S) NHTSA Chief: Self-Driving Cars Need to Halve … Continued
8:57 AM EDT on June 16, 2016
- Poor People Pay for Parking Even When They Can’t Afford a Car (WaPo)
- Law Requiring Michigan Cities to Pay for Highways Through Them May Be Overturned (Detroit News)
- DC’s Purple Line Gets $875 Million TIFIA Loan (Bethesda Magazine)
- Transit Industry Facing a “Workforce Cliff” With Retirements Looming (RT&S)
- NHTSA Chief: Self-Driving Cars Need to Halve the Number of People Killed in Traffic (Claims Journal)
- Detroit Ranks Third in Pace of Increasing Walkability (Michigan Radio)
- Miami Changing Its Parking Rules to Promote Walkability (The Real Deal)
- Oklahoma City Using Traffic Calming to Make Streets Safer (KFOR)
- Record Ridership on Capital Bikeshare as Metro Safety Closures Begin (NBC Washington)
- Atlanta Launches Small Bike-Share System (NextCity)
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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