Today’s Headlines
Trump Thinks He Can Get States to Start Building $1 Trillion in Infrastructure in 90 Days (WSJ) Trump Weighing $6 Billion Cut to HUD, Axing Community Development Block Grants (WaPo) Infrastructure Genius Elon Musk Has Trump’s Ear (Market Watch) Civil Rights Groups, Environmentalists Suing to Stop the Expansion of I-94 in Milwaukee (Planetizen) Boston’s MBTA May Privatize … Continued
9:00 AM EST on March 9, 2017
- Trump Thinks He Can Get States to Start Building $1 Trillion in Infrastructure in 90 Days (WSJ)
- Trump Weighing $6 Billion Cut to HUD, Axing Community Development Block Grants (WaPo)
- Infrastructure Genius Elon Musk Has Trump’s Ear (Market Watch)
- Civil Rights Groups, Environmentalists Suing to Stop the Expansion of I-94 in Milwaukee (Planetizen)
- Boston’s MBTA May Privatize Maintenance on its Bus Fleet (Boston Herald)
- Jersey City to Construct Its First Protected Bike Lane (The Jersey Journal)
- Will Toor: State of Colorado Must Pitch in to Support Transit (Colorado Statesman)
- Two Slow-Speed Driverless Shuttles Are Operating in San Ramon, California (KQED)
- Three in Four Americans Scared to Ride in a Self-Driving Car (AAAnews)
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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