Today’s Headlines
Some Cities And Counties Are Letting Transit Slide, Hoping Uber Will Fill the Gap (Slate) CA Regulators Halt Uber Autonomous Vehicle Pilot in SF After Car Runs Red Light Into Crosswalk (electrek) Auto Sales Slumping (WSJ) In 35 Years, Boston Parking Meter Prices Have Gone Up 25 Percent, Transit Fares 275 Percent (Globe) Detroit Debuts Plans for … Continued
8:57 AM EST on December 15, 2016
- Some Cities And Counties Are Letting Transit Slide, Hoping Uber Will Fill the Gap (Slate)
- CA Regulators Halt Uber Autonomous Vehicle Pilot in SF After Car Runs Red Light Into Crosswalk (electrek)
- Auto Sales Slumping (WSJ)
- In 35 Years, Boston Parking Meter Prices Have Gone Up 25 Percent, Transit Fares 275 Percent (Globe)
- Detroit Debuts Plans for Downtown Protected Bikeway Network (Curbed)
- Seattle Begins $21 Million Loan Program to Boost TOD By Light Rail Stations (NextCity)
- U.S. DOT Releases a “Toolkit” for Interacting With State DOTs (CityLab)
- Study: Self-Driving Cars Will Increase Highway Capacity a Lot (SSTI)
- The Most Polluting States Went for Trump (Atlantic)
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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