Today’s Headlines
Trump Talks Infrastructure With the Times, Knows Nothing About Transit At the Moment, an “Infrastructure Bill” in Washington Is a Fantasy (Brookings) St. Louis Voters Okay Metrolink Expansion, Shoot Down MLS Stadium (St. Louis Public Radio) It Sure Looks Like the Car Insurance Industry Discriminates Against People of Color (ProPublica) Tulsa Will Use a Combined Pass … Continued
8:57 AM EDT on April 6, 2017
- Trump Talks Infrastructure With the Times, Knows Nothing About Transit
- At the Moment, an “Infrastructure Bill” in Washington Is a Fantasy (Brookings)
- St. Louis Voters Okay Metrolink Expansion, Shoot Down MLS Stadium (St. Louis Public Radio)
- It Sure Looks Like the Car Insurance Industry Discriminates Against People of Color (ProPublica)
- Tulsa Will Use a Combined Pass for Buses and Bike-Share (GTR Newspapers)
- More Than 200 Bike-Share Bikes Vandalized in Portland (Oregonian)
- Kansas City Preparing for a Vote on Streetcar Expansion (KC Star)
- Nashville Considering Closing a “Loophole” That Allows Developers to Forgo Sidewalks (Tennessean)
- MA Gov Charlie Baker’s Pitch to Elaine Chao May Have Sealed Green Line Deal (Boston Herald)
- Bike Helmet Laws Do More Harm Than Good (CityLab)
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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