Today’s Headlines
Facing Lawsuit, Wisconsin DOT Asks Feds to Rescind Approval for Highway Expansion (Gazette) Crews Report Good Progress on Bellevue, WA, Light Rail Tunnel (KOMO) Kansas City Road Diet Restriping Took So Long It’s Already Outdated (Star) Dockless Bike-Share Comes to Silver Springs; Other D.C. Suburbs Are Next (Post) $200 Million Bond Will Make Raleigh Safer … Continued
By
Blake Aued
9:07 AM EDT on October 4, 2017
- Facing Lawsuit, Wisconsin DOT Asks Feds to Rescind Approval for Highway Expansion (Gazette)
- Crews Report Good Progress on Bellevue, WA, Light Rail Tunnel (KOMO)
- Kansas City Road Diet Restriping Took So Long It’s Already Outdated (Star)
- Dockless Bike-Share Comes to Silver Springs; Other D.C. Suburbs Are Next (Post)
- $200 Million Bond Will Make Raleigh Safer for Walking (News and Observer)
- St. Louis Receives Grant to Calm Notoriously Fast Street (Post-Dispatch)
- California Will No Longer Ticket Jaywalkers During Countdown (Streetsblog Cal)
- Elon, NC, Could Make Every Day PARKing Day (Times-News)
- Minneapolis Driver Wants to Know If It’s OK to Hit Jaywalkers (City Pages)
Blake Aued has been doing Streetsblog's daily national news digest for years. He's also an Atlanta Braves fan, which enrages his editor in New York.
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