Today's Headlines

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

By Angie Schmitt

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 Schmitt

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.

Today's Headlines

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