Today’s Headlines
Maryland Gov. Hogan: Feds to Sign $900 Million Purple Line Funding Agreement (WaPo, WJLA) What’s Next for Seattle’s Grand Experiment With City-Sanctioned, Venture-Financed Bike-Share? (Urbanist) Less Than a Year After Launch, Cobb County Considers Cutting Bus to Atlanta Braves Stadium (AJC) Florida DOT to Build 13-Mile “Road to Nowhere” Toll Highway Along Rural Gulf Coast … Continued
8:55 AM EDT on August 22, 2017
- Maryland Gov. Hogan: Feds to Sign $900 Million Purple Line Funding Agreement (WaPo, WJLA)
- What’s Next for Seattle’s Grand Experiment With City-Sanctioned, Venture-Financed Bike-Share? (Urbanist)
- Less Than a Year After Launch, Cobb County Considers Cutting Bus to Atlanta Braves Stadium (AJC)
- Florida DOT to Build 13-Mile “Road to Nowhere” Toll Highway Along Rural Gulf Coast (News Chief)
- Seattle Police Issued Just 484 Tickets to Bike Lane Blockers Last Year (Seattle Times)
- San Diego MPO’s Executive Resigns, Leaving Behind a Fractured Region (Union-Tribune)
- Santa Fe Considers Merging City and Regional Bus Systems (New Mexican)
- Greenville, Ohio, Quietly Removes Bike Racks Over Mysterious “Safety” Concerns (Bluebag)
- Meet the NYC Couple That Got Married on the Bus and Rode It to Their Reception (Bedford+Bowery)
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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