Today’s Headlines
Elaine Chao Confirmed Easily for Transportation Secretary… (WaPo) …Still Evasive About the Administration’s Plans (NYT) Study: America Requires Way Too Much Parking Near Transit (NITC) Why Elon Musk’s Plan to Tunnel Under L.A. to Fix Congestion Is Terrible (City Journal) What Vision Zero Cities Are Finding Does and Doesn’t Work (Governing) Rural Minnesota Lawmaker Wants to Require … Continued
8:59 AM EST on February 1, 2017
- Elaine Chao Confirmed Easily for Transportation Secretary… (WaPo)
- …Still Evasive About the Administration’s Plans (NYT)
- Study: America Requires Way Too Much Parking Near Transit (NITC)
- Why Elon Musk’s Plan to Tunnel Under L.A. to Fix Congestion Is Terrible (City Journal)
- What Vision Zero Cities Are Finding Does and Doesn’t Work (Governing)
- Rural Minnesota Lawmaker Wants to Require Permits for Bike Lane Users (TwinCities.com)
- Georgia Police Officer Fired After Driving 97, Jumping Curb, Hitting Two Pedestrians (WSB Atlanta)
- Parking Spaces Sell for as High as $88,000 in Boston (Curbed)
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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