Today’s Headlines
Trump Revamps FASTLANE Grant; INFRA Program Focused More on Private Funding and Rural Needs (Hill) Oregon Governor, Legislative Leaders Reach Deal on Scaled-Down Transportation Funding Package (Register-Guard) Reshaping the DART Board Isn’t About Suburb vs. City; It’s About Running a Useful Transit System (D Magazine) Hampton Roads Transit Looks to Straighten Out Its Winding Bus Routes (Daily … Continued
8:55 AM EDT on June 29, 2017
- Trump Revamps FASTLANE Grant; INFRA Program Focused More on Private Funding and Rural Needs (Hill)
- Oregon Governor, Legislative Leaders Reach Deal on Scaled-Down Transportation Funding Package (Register-Guard)
- Reshaping the DART Board Isn’t About Suburb vs. City; It’s About Running a Useful Transit System (D Magazine)
- Hampton Roads Transit Looks to Straighten Out Its Winding Bus Routes (Daily Press)
- “Supercommuters” Get Lots of Attention, But It’s a Small Group and Numbers Aren’t Skyrocketing (City Observatory)
- Facing Budget Crunch, City of Poughkeepsie Bus System to Be Taken Over By County (Poughkeepsie Journal)
- Five Steps to Help Make Bay Area Transit Affordable to Low-Income Riders (SPUR)
- Former Head of City Club of Chicago Moves to Florida, Is “Shocked” to Discover Dangers of Biking There (Sun Sentinel)
- Albuquerque Suburb Parks Mobile Speed Cameras in Bike Lanes, Tells Residents It’s Completely Legal (KRQE)
- New Book Looks at Lessons From the Bike Boom (and Collapse) of the 1970s (Curbed)
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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