Today’s Headlines
What Trump Can and Can’t Do with Obama’s Climate Change Regs (NYT) Big-City Mayors Grapple With New President (Governing) A Look at the Infrastructure Projects Governors Want Trump to Fund (WaPo) Rural Millennials Are Still All About Driving — But They Have No Choice (Wired) Amtrak Engineer in Philly Crash Tested Positive for Marijuana (The Hill) Where Tech … Continued
By
Katie Pearce
8:59 AM EST on January 27, 2017
- What Trump Can and Can’t Do with Obama’s Climate Change Regs (NYT)
- Big-City Mayors Grapple With New President (Governing)
- A Look at the Infrastructure Projects Governors Want Trump to Fund (WaPo)
- Rural Millennials Are Still All About Driving — But They Have No Choice (Wired)
- Amtrak Engineer in Philly Crash Tested Positive for Marijuana (The Hill)
- Where Tech Fits Into Infrastructure Planning (FedScoop)
- Transit Veteran Jay Walder’s Lessons on Public-Private Partnerships (NextCity)
- Ranking All U.S. Bike-Share Systems By Size (GGW)
- You’re 3X More Likely to Get Hurt Driving a Car Than Taking the Bus (CityLab)
- Memphis Lags Behind Peer Cities on Transit Funding (Daily News)
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