Today’s Headlines
Tampa Planners Approve $6 Billion Sprawl Highway Project (SaintPetersBlog) How Can Bike Advocacy Become More Inclusive? (Spoke Magazine) Wisconsin City Wants to Privatize Cul-de-Sacs (Minnesota Public Radio) Columnist Suggests Pedestrian Overpasses — Not Traffic Calming — for Pensacola Beach (WUWF) Charleston Cyclists Pack Meeting to Save Bike Lane on Important Bridge (ABCNews4) Bike-Share Coming to Tucson (Tucson News … Continued
8:58 AM EDT on June 23, 2016
- Tampa Planners Approve $6 Billion Sprawl Highway Project (SaintPetersBlog)
- How Can Bike Advocacy Become More Inclusive? (Spoke Magazine)
- Wisconsin City Wants to Privatize Cul-de-Sacs (Minnesota Public Radio)
- Columnist Suggests Pedestrian Overpasses — Not Traffic Calming — for Pensacola Beach (WUWF)
- Charleston Cyclists Pack Meeting to Save Bike Lane on Important Bridge (ABCNews4)
- Bike-Share Coming to Tucson (Tucson News Now)
- Milwaukee Suburb Votes in Favor of Bus Rapid Transit (Business Journal)
- Sprawl Costs Houstonites Billions a Year (Houston Agent Magazine)
- Little Demand for the New Space Created By Expanding Portland’s Growth Boundary (KGW)
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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