Today's Headlines

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

By Angie Schmitt

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 Schmitt

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.

Today's Headlines

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