Today’s Headlines
Road Raging Driver Murders Teen With Baseball Bat in Northern Virginia (BuzzFeed, WaPo) Lyft’s Newest Service Looks a Lot Like Transit — And That’s a Problem for Transit (Salon) Subprime Auto Loans Haunt Poor People Long After Their Car Has Been Repossessed (NYT) Some Fingers Point to Ride-Hailing as Sacramento Transit Ridership Falls (Bee) How to … Continued
8:55 AM EDT on June 20, 2017
- Road Raging Driver Murders Teen With Baseball Bat in Northern Virginia (BuzzFeed, WaPo)
- Lyft’s Newest Service Looks a Lot Like Transit — And That’s a Problem for Transit (Salon)
- Subprime Auto Loans Haunt Poor People Long After Their Car Has Been Repossessed (NYT)
- Some Fingers Point to Ride-Hailing as Sacramento Transit Ridership Falls (Bee)
- How to Fund DC Metro? Some Ideas From Maryland Legislators (WaPo) and Virginia Advisory Panel (WTOP)
- Instead of Charging Homeowners, Des Moines Suburb Will Use Speed Cam Revenue to Build Sidewalks (Register)
- Research Proves Common Sense: Riding Citi Bike Is Faster Than Taking a Cab in Manhattan (CityLab)
- Why Did Amazon Buy Whole Foods? It Might Have Something To Do With Parking Lots (WSJ)
- Neighbors in Springfield, MO, Appreciate Pop-Up Traffic Calming Demonstration (News-Leader)
- Branden Klayko, Founder of Louisville Blog Broken Sidewalk, Has Died (Insider Louisville, Courier-Journal)
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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