Today’s Headlines
Can Neighbors Stop Colorado From Expanding a Hated Denver Highway? (Governing) Denver’s Airport Train One Year In: Some Glitches But Strong Ridership, says RTD (Denver Post) The Man With All the Answers, Elon Musk, Can’t Figure Out His Employee Parking Lot (Wall Street Journal) Support for Tolling Rises in Massachusetts (Planetizen) Slate Reviews Richard Florida’s New Book Consultants Predict … Continued
8:59 AM EDT on April 12, 2017
- Can Neighbors Stop Colorado From Expanding a Hated Denver Highway? (Governing)
- Denver’s Airport Train One Year In: Some Glitches But Strong Ridership, says RTD (Denver Post)
- The Man With All the Answers, Elon Musk, Can’t Figure Out His Employee Parking Lot (Wall Street Journal)
- Support for Tolling Rises in Massachusetts (Planetizen)
- Slate Reviews Richard Florida’s New Book
- Consultants Predict That Driverless Cars Will Account for a Quarter of Traffic By 2030 (Bloomberg)
- Find Out How Much Your City Will Lose Under Proposed HUD Cuts (National Low Income Housing Coalition)
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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