Today’s Headlines
Dallas Morning News Columnist Celebrates Impending Death of Trinity Toll Road Birmingham Beltway Will Bring Jobs, Money, Ponies for Everyone, Say Highway Boosters (AL.com) Jacobs Announces Purchase of CH2M to Create Transportation Mega-Consultant (Bloomberg, Reuters) FTA Approves Environmental Review to Replace NEC Portal Bridge Bottleneck; Next: Funding (NJ.com) South Florida Opponents Say Privately-Funded Rail Needs … Continued
8:55 AM EDT on August 3, 2017
- Dallas Morning News Columnist Celebrates Impending Death of Trinity Toll Road
- Birmingham Beltway Will Bring Jobs, Money, Ponies for Everyone, Say Highway Boosters (AL.com)
- Jacobs Announces Purchase of CH2M to Create Transportation Mega-Consultant (Bloomberg, Reuters)
- FTA Approves Environmental Review to Replace NEC Portal Bridge Bottleneck; Next: Funding (NJ.com)
- South Florida Opponents Say Privately-Funded Rail Needs More Environmental Study (Biz Journal)
- Atlanta Local TV News Picks Up on City’s Quiet Decision to Remove Protected Bike Lane (CBS 46)
- Even in Burlington, VT, “Progressive” NIMBYs Put Parking Above All Else (Seven Days)
- Subdivision Developers in Rochester, NH, Try to Wriggle Out of Requirements to Build Sidewalks (Fosters)
- Five Years After Young Girl Was Killed on Side of Road, Springfield, OH, to Install Sidewalks (News-Sun)
- Dan Savage: Seattle Needs to Stop Being Afraid of Being a City, Go All In on Density and Transit (Urbanist)
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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