Today’s Headlines
The House Is Looking for Ways to Fund an Infrastructure Package (WaPo) CityLab Takes a Look at Cleveland’s Controversial Public Square Closure Joe Cortright: Audit of Oregon DOT Is Misleading (Bike Portland) Density Is a Low-Cost Solution to Traffic (Governing) Nashville Mayor, Tennessee Governor Come Together on Transportation Plan, Gas Tax Hike (NextCity) Canadian University Withdraws From … Continued
8:59 AM EST on February 2, 2017
- The House Is Looking for Ways to Fund an Infrastructure Package (WaPo)
- CityLab Takes a Look at Cleveland’s Controversial Public Square Closure
- Joe Cortright: Audit of Oregon DOT Is Misleading (Bike Portland)
- Density Is a Low-Cost Solution to Traffic (Governing)
- Nashville Mayor, Tennessee Governor Come Together on Transportation Plan, Gas Tax Hike (NextCity)
- Canadian University Withdraws From Geography Conference in U.S. to Protect Students (Transportist)
- Temple Public Health Researcher Sounds Alarm About GOP Attacks on Data (Philly.com)
- Sound Transit Creates Policy to Protect Access to Peaceful Demonstrations (NextCity)
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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