Today’s Headlines
Shreveport, Louisiana, to Bulldoze Black Neighborhood for $640 Million Interstate Highway (Shreveport Times) Massive Planned Cuts Will Only Worsen Miami-Dade Transit’s Death Spiral, Warn Advocates (New Times) Plain Dealer Urges Ohio Senate to Override Kasich’s Veto of Fix for Transit Agencies Caught in Budget Crossfire To Discourage Racial Profiling, Oregon Has a New Law Tracking … Continued
8:55 AM EDT on August 21, 2017
- Shreveport, Louisiana, to Bulldoze Black Neighborhood for $640 Million Interstate Highway (Shreveport Times)
- Massive Planned Cuts Will Only Worsen Miami-Dade Transit’s Death Spiral, Warn Advocates (New Times)
- Plain Dealer Urges Ohio Senate to Override Kasich’s Veto of Fix for Transit Agencies Caught in Budget Crossfire
- To Discourage Racial Profiling, Oregon Has a New Law Tracking Traffic Stop Demographics (BikePortland)
- Austin Faces Second Lawsuit for Violent Jaywalking Arrests (American-Statesman)
- Seattle Police Have Dramatically Reduced the Number of Helmet Law Tickets Since 2011 (Seattle Times)
- As Town Delays Fixes, Police on Cape Cod Want to Arrest Person Behind DIY Bike Lanes (Falmouth Enterprise)
- Drexel Study Shows Exactly How Much Parking Adds to the Cost of Philadelphia Housing (PlanPhilly)
- What’s Next for Founder of Atlanta BeltLine? Taking on Dangerous Buford Highway (Reporter Newspapers)
- Think Your City Is Terrible for Walking? At Least It’s Not Jakarta (NYT)
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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