Today’s Headlines
How America’s “Infrastructure” Conversation Gets It Wrong (Bloomberg) The Key Question About Autonomous Cars: Will Everyone Own One, or Will We Share? (Slate) Eno Transportation Releases Database of Upcoming Transit Ballot Issues D.C. to Cap a Highway Trench With Five Buildings (NYT) If SEPTA Workers Strike, Expect People to Turn to Bicycling (Philly Voice) Pedestrian Deaths Reached … Continued
9:00 AM EDT on October 27, 2016
- How America’s “Infrastructure” Conversation Gets It Wrong (Bloomberg)
- The Key Question About Autonomous Cars: Will Everyone Own One, or Will We Share? (Slate)
- Eno Transportation Releases Database of Upcoming Transit Ballot Issues
- D.C. to Cap a Highway Trench With Five Buildings (NYT)
- If SEPTA Workers Strike, Expect People to Turn to Bicycling (Philly Voice)
- Pedestrian Deaths Reached Record High in Maine Last Year (Bangor Daily News)
- Support for Transit Villain/Trump Lapdog Chris Christie Has “Imploded” in Jersey (The Atlantic)
- Angry Driver Who Knocked CA Radio Host Off His Bike on Charity Ride Not Arrested (ABC 10)
- Study Finds More U.S. Neighborhoods Becoming Racially Integrated (Phys.org)
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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