Today’s Headlines
HUD Pick Ben Carson Never Actually Lived in Public Housing (Washington Examiner) Professional Rail Critic Randall O’Toole Worried Elaine Chao Is Too Pro-Rail (Lincoln Times News) Factsheet: Why Uber Won’t Kill Transit (TransitCenter) Drivers Hit 20 Pedestrians in Toronto and the CBC Blamed It on the Rain Dan Savage: Fatalities in the “War on Cars” Are Never Cars … Continued
9:02 AM EST on December 7, 2016
- HUD Pick Ben Carson Never Actually Lived in Public Housing (Washington Examiner)
- Professional Rail Critic Randall O’Toole Worried Elaine Chao Is Too Pro-Rail (Lincoln Times News)
- Factsheet: Why Uber Won’t Kill Transit (TransitCenter)
- Drivers Hit 20 Pedestrians in Toronto and the CBC Blamed It on the Rain
- Dan Savage: Fatalities in the “War on Cars” Are Never Cars (The Stranger)
- Leaked Trump Energy Plan Aims to Roll Back Fuel Economy Standards (Center for Media & Democracy)
- EPA Proceeds to Finalize Emission Standards Through 2025, Ahead of Trump’s Term (Detroit News)
- Are Suburbs Really “Outperforming” Cities Like the Urban Land Institute Claims? (City Observatory)
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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