Today’s Headlines
Paul Ryan: Infrastructure Measure Will Seek Private Financing, Won’t Stimulate Economy (Hugh Hewitt) Five Ways Federal Infrastructure Spending Makes Cities Poorer (Strong Towns) How High Transit Construction Costs Fit in With Transit’s Other Political Challenges (Frontier Group) Gas Prices Headed Toward Five-Year High (KARE 11 Minneapolis) Vox Throws Cold Water on Climate Optimism in the Trump Era Vancouver’s Bike-Friendly … Continued
9:00 AM EST on January 5, 2017
- Paul Ryan: Infrastructure Measure Will Seek Private Financing, Won’t Stimulate Economy (Hugh Hewitt)
- Five Ways Federal Infrastructure Spending Makes Cities Poorer (Strong Towns)
- How High Transit Construction Costs Fit in With Transit’s Other Political Challenges (Frontier Group)
- Gas Prices Headed Toward Five-Year High (KARE 11 Minneapolis)
- Vox Throws Cold Water on Climate Optimism in the Trump Era
- Vancouver’s Bike-Friendly Streets Are a Model for North America (Globe and Mail)
- Michigan May Raise Speed Limits Despite Failure to Reduce Traffic Deaths (Transport Topics)
- Boston’s Experiment With Dynamic Parking Pricing Already Seems to Be Working (Globe)
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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