Today’s Headlines
Trump Names Two New York Developers to Monitor Infrastructure Spending (WSJ) North Dakota Bill Would Make It Legal to Run Over Protestors (Daily Kos) Tesla Allows Self-Driving Cars to Break the Speed Limit (Guardian) Google Maps May Soon Show Ease/Difficulty of Parking at Destinations (Ars Technica) Florida DOT Blames Nation-Leading Pedestrian Death Toll on the State’s Pedestrians (CityLab) Obama … Continued
8:55 AM EST on January 18, 2017
- Trump Names Two New York Developers to Monitor Infrastructure Spending (WSJ)
- North Dakota Bill Would Make It Legal to Run Over Protestors (Daily Kos)
- Tesla Allows Self-Driving Cars to Break the Speed Limit (Guardian)
- Google Maps May Soon Show Ease/Difficulty of Parking at Destinations (Ars Technica)
- Florida DOT Blames Nation-Leading Pedestrian Death Toll on the State’s Pedestrians (CityLab)
- Obama Administration Names Leaders to Self-Driving Cars Advisory Panel (WSJ)
- Boston Advocates Want to Emphasize Bus Service (Globe)
- People for Bikes‘ “Green Lane Project” Is Complete — Here’s What It Accomplished
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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