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Rahm Emanuel Plows Ahead With Express Rail to O’Hare (Chicago Tribune) Only 30 Percent of Downtown Seattle Workers Drive Solo to Work (Seattle Times) Florida DOT Builds Its First Protected Bike Lane in Tampa (WPTV) North Carolina DOT, Charlotte Install Pedestrian Counters (WCNC) Is Austin a “Big City”? (Statesman) CA Lawmaker Intros Bill to Kill Boondoggle 710 Highway … Continued

By Angie Schmitt

8:57 AM EST on February 10, 2017

Rahm Emanuel Plows Ahead With Express Rail to O’Hare (Chicago Tribune)
Only 30 Percent of Downtown Seattle Workers Drive Solo to Work (Seattle Times)
Florida DOT Builds Its First Protected Bike Lane in Tampa (WPTV)
North Carolina DOT, Charlotte Install Pedestrian Counters (WCNC)
Is Austin a “Big City”? (Statesman)
CA Lawmaker Intros Bill to Kill Boondoggle 710 Highway Tunnel in Pasadena (KPCC)
Trump Laments Lack of “Fast Trains” in the U.S. (The Hill)
Bill to Lower Speed Limits in Texas Cities Introduced in State Legislature (Dallas News)

Angie Schmitt

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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