Today’s Headlines
Detroit Leaders Reach Deal on Transit Plan (Detroit Free Press) Injunction Stops Work on Albuquerque BRT (Business Journals) Atlanta to Use $10 Million TIGER Grant to Complete an Important Street (AJC) Omaha’s Progress Toward Becoming a Walkable City (World-Herald) Gated Communities Undermine Walkability (Miami News Today) Duluth Installing “Super Sidewalks” For Cyclists and Pedestrians to … Continued
9:00 AM EDT on August 3, 2016
- Detroit Leaders Reach Deal on Transit Plan (Detroit Free Press)
- Injunction Stops Work on Albuquerque BRT (Business Journals)
- Atlanta to Use $10 Million TIGER Grant to Complete an Important Street (AJC)
- Omaha’s Progress Toward Becoming a Walkable City (World-Herald)
- Gated Communities Undermine Walkability (Miami News Today)
- Duluth Installing “Super Sidewalks” For Cyclists and Pedestrians to Share (Bemidji Press)
- China’s “Straddling Bus” Goes on a Test Run (Shanghaist)
- More than 120,000 Rides on Twin Cities’ A-Line BRT in First Month (Star Tribune)
- Cities Finally Realizing They Need Less Parking (Grist)
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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