Today’s Headlines
Slate: Pouring Money Into Roads Is a Dead End Jared Kushner Also in Charge of Shaping Trump’s Infrastructure Plan (CNBC) Deadly Texas Crash Could Influence State’s Texting-While-Driving Bill (Houston Chron) California Advances $52B Transpo Bill With Gas Tax Hike (Mercury News) What’s in Store for Michigan’s Most Important Street? (D Mag) Meet the “MARTA Army” Working for Transpo Change in Atlanta … Continued
By
Katie Pearce
8:57 AM EDT on April 4, 2017
- Slate: Pouring Money Into Roads Is a Dead End
- Jared Kushner Also in Charge of Shaping Trump’s Infrastructure Plan (CNBC)
- Deadly Texas Crash Could Influence State’s Texting-While-Driving Bill (Houston Chron)
- California Advances $52B Transpo Bill With Gas Tax Hike (Mercury News)
- What’s in Store for Michigan’s Most Important Street? (D Mag)
- Meet the “MARTA Army” Working for Transpo Change in Atlanta (Atlanta Mag)
- What Would It Take for the U.S. to Replicate Bogota’s World-Class BRT? (GGW)
- Utah Judge Allows Provo BRT to Move Forward (Salt Lake Trib)
- World Bike Forum Takes Place This Month in Mexico City (Mexico City News)
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