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Trump’s “Buy America” Order Will Make Infrastructure More Expensive (Vox) Schumer Hasn’t “Heard a Peep” From Trump About Working Together on Infrastructure (NY Daily News) Washington State Will Aim for Zero Pedestrian Deaths (Chinook Observer) Nashville to Require More Developers to Provide Sidewalks (Tennessean) Trump Budget Leads to the Cancellation of Bus Rapid Transit Project in … Continued

By Angie Schmitt

8:58 AM EDT on April 19, 2017

Trump’s “Buy America” Order Will Make Infrastructure More Expensive (Vox)
Schumer Hasn’t “Heard a Peep” From Trump About Working Together on Infrastructure (NY Daily News)
Washington State Will Aim for Zero Pedestrian Deaths (Chinook Observer)
Nashville to Require More Developers to Provide Sidewalks (Tennessean)
Trump Budget Leads to the Cancellation of Bus Rapid Transit Project in Lansing, Michigan (NextCity)
Plan to Build a Light Rail System in Las Vegas Gets Thumbs Up From State Senate (KNPR)
Republican Who Voted to Defund Caltrain Project Loses Station in His District (Fresno Bee)
Study: Noisiest NYC Neighborhoods Are the Healthiest. The Connection: Walkability? (6sqft)
Feds Rule I-70 Widening in Denver Doesn’t Violate Civil Rights (Streetsblog Denver)
Slate: Retail “Apocalypse” Could Drag Down the Suburbs

Angie Schmitt

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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