Today’s Headlines
More Coverage of Trump’s Transportation Secretary Pick, Elaine Chao (NYT, NPR, WaPo) The Takeaway Explains Why Trump’s Infrastructure Plan Could Be Just a Tax Cut for the Rich How Will Obama’s Desegregation Efforts Fare Under Trump? (The Atlantic) Pricetag on LA Carpool Lane Rises to $1.6 Billion — Traffic Still Hasn’t Improved (LA Times) Carmel Indiana Now Has 100 Traffic Circles … Continued
9:01 AM EST on November 30, 2016
- More Coverage of Trump’s Transportation Secretary Pick, Elaine Chao (NYT, NPR, WaPo)
- The Takeaway Explains Why Trump’s Infrastructure Plan Could Be Just a Tax Cut for the Rich
- How Will Obama’s Desegregation Efforts Fare Under Trump? (The Atlantic)
- Pricetag on LA Carpool Lane Rises to $1.6 Billion — Traffic Still Hasn’t Improved (LA Times)
- Carmel Indiana Now Has 100 Traffic Circles (CityLab)
- In More Walkable Cities, the Government, Not Property Owners, Pays for Sidewalks (Fast Company)
- Washington Suburbs Want Transit to Keep Cost of Living Affordable (WaPo)
- How Should We Help Shrinking Cities? (Urbanophile)
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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