Today’s Headlines

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 Schmitt is the author of Right of Way: Race, Class and the Silent Epidemic of Pedestrian Deaths in America, and the former editor of Streetsblog USA.

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