Today’s Headlines
New Jersey, North Texas, Tempe, Alabama Among Places That Would Lose Transit Funding Under Trump Budget LaCrosse, Wisconsin, Doesn’t Want WisDOT’s Highway (NextCity) 97 Percent of U.S. Population Affected by Traffic Noise Pollution (CityLab) Pennsylvania Freezes $2 Billion Boondoggle Highway Project (Herald Standard) Minnesota Republicans Renew Call for Elaine Chao to Cancel Minneapolis Light Rail … Continued
9:00 AM EDT on March 23, 2017
- New Jersey, North Texas, Tempe, Alabama Among Places That Would Lose Transit Funding Under Trump Budget
- LaCrosse, Wisconsin, Doesn’t Want WisDOT’s Highway (NextCity)
- 97 Percent of U.S. Population Affected by Traffic Noise Pollution (CityLab)
- Pennsylvania Freezes $2 Billion Boondoggle Highway Project (Herald Standard)
- Minnesota Republicans Renew Call for Elaine Chao to Cancel Minneapolis Light Rail Project (Star Tribune)
- Atlanta Mayor Blasts Negative Streetcar Coverage (Journal Constitution)
- Better Transit, Higher Home Prices (City Observatory)
- State Farm Continues Moving Thousands of Employees Toward Transit (T4A)
- Enthusiasm, Political Support Building for Gulf Coast Passenger Rail, But Trump’s Budget Threatens It (T4A)
- Houston Finally Approves Its Ambitious Bike Plan (Chronicle)
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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