Today’s Headlines
Who Killed a Federal Inquiry Into America’s Sky-High Transit Construction Costs? (Vox) CityLab Looks at How Trump’s Budget Is Bad for Bicycling Trump Budget Cuts Transit Funding, But Leaves Door Open for Maryland’s Purple Line (WaPo) Boston Launches Pilot for All-Door Boarding Along Silver Line Bus (Next City) Denver Suburb Paid Lots of Money to Offer Free … Continued
8:55 AM EDT on May 25, 2017
- Who Killed a Federal Inquiry Into America’s Sky-High Transit Construction Costs? (Vox)
- CityLab Looks at How Trump’s Budget Is Bad for Bicycling
- Trump Budget Cuts Transit Funding, But Leaves Door Open for Maryland’s Purple Line (WaPo)
- Boston Launches Pilot for All-Door Boarding Along Silver Line Bus (Next City)
- Denver Suburb Paid Lots of Money to Offer Free Lyft Rides to Light Rail and Barely Anyone Used It (Denverite)
- MARTA Ridership Drops After I-85 Reopens, Allowing Atlantans to Sit in Gridlock Alone (WABE)
- BikePGH: Failed Pittsburgh Mayoral Candidates Show That Bashing Bikes Is a Vote Loser (Post-Gazette)
- Boston Globe Continues Series on Pesky Pedestrians, Discovers Police (Rightly) Don’t Care About Jaywalking
- That Old Canard? Baltimore NIMBYs Claim Protected Bike Lanes Block Emergency Vehicles (WBAL)
- 50-Bike, 10-Station Bike-Share Launches in Roanoke, Virginia (Roanoke Times)
In spring 2017, Stephen wrote for Streetsblog USA, covering the livable streets movement and transportation policy developments around the nation.
From August 2012 to October 2015, he was a reporter for Streetsblog NYC, covering livable streets and transportation issues in the city and the region. After joining Streetsblog, he covered the tail end of the Bloomberg administration and the launch of Citi Bike. Since then, he covered mayoral elections, the de Blasio administration's ongoing Vision Zero campaign, and New York City's ever-evolving street safety and livable streets movements.
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