Today’s Headlines
Remember “Infrastructure Week”? Trump Still Hasn’t Hired People for Key Posts at U.S. DOT (Vox) A Funding Cut Is A Funding Cut, No Matter How Trump Tries to Spin It, Says Colorado DOT (KUNC) Miami-Dade Begins Rolling Out Bus Lanes and Its First Protected Bike Lane (Herald, NBC 6) Confusion! Albuquerque Drivers Are Parking in Their City’s First … Continued
8:55 AM EDT on June 13, 2017
- Remember “Infrastructure Week”? Trump Still Hasn’t Hired People for Key Posts at U.S. DOT (Vox)
- A Funding Cut Is A Funding Cut, No Matter How Trump Tries to Spin It, Says Colorado DOT (KUNC)
- Miami-Dade Begins Rolling Out Bus Lanes and Its First Protected Bike Lane (Herald, NBC 6)
- Confusion! Albuquerque Drivers Are Parking in Their City’s First Protected Bike Lane (KRQE)
- DC Mayor Battles With Council Chair in Attempt to Save Funding for Streetcar Extension (WAMU)
- Sacramento Regional Transit Puts Aside $25 Million for Streetcar Project (Bee)
- The Cost of Car Dependence: License Suspensions for Unpaid Fines Leave Poor Stranded (Free Press)
- Seattle Times Examines Scourge of Drivers Speeding Through Residential Intersections
- Houston Looks to Los Angeles and San Antonio as Models to Improve Its Ciclovía (Chronicle)
- 30-Bicycle Bike-Share System Launches in Midland, MI (ABC 12)
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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