Today’s Headlines
FTA Awards Atlanta $500,000 to Plan Future Streetcar Corridors (AJC) 2016 Might Be the Worst Year for Minnesota Pedestrians in a Long Time (Star Tribune) Pedestrians Keep Getting Killed in Fort Myers, Florida, So Police Give Them Flashlights (Wink News) One in Five L.A. Transit Riders Has Experienced Sexual Harassment on Board (Curbed) Is Dallas’ … Continued
8:56 AM EDT on September 28, 2016
- FTA Awards Atlanta $500,000 to Plan Future Streetcar Corridors (AJC)
- 2016 Might Be the Worst Year for Minnesota Pedestrians in a Long Time (Star Tribune)
- Pedestrians Keep Getting Killed in Fort Myers, Florida, So Police Give Them Flashlights (Wink News)
- One in Five L.A. Transit Riders Has Experienced Sexual Harassment on Board (Curbed)
- Is Dallas’ Expanding Oak Cliff Streetcar Still “a $50 Million Waste?” (DMagazine)
- North Phoenix Residents Blame Light Rail for Uptick in Crime (ABC15)
- Gas Consumption at an All-Time High (Energy Institute at Haas)
- What Should Sustainable Infrastructure Look Like After the Auto Age? (Boston Globe)
- Cities Around the World Eliminating Parking Lots (The Guardian)
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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