Today’s Headlines
Kansas City Voters Will Decide Saturday Whether to Expand Streetcar (Star) Curbed Takes a Deep Dive Into the Atlanta BeltLine’s Affordability Issues Utah Will Spend $1 Billion on 19-Mile, Sprawl-Creating Freeway (Salt Lake Tribune) Is Amazon Eyeing Philly’s Future Amtrak Station Site for Second HQ? (Curbed) Bike-Share Succeeds at Penn State (PSU News) But Not … Continued
By
Blake Aued
8:57 AM EDT on October 6, 2017
- Kansas City Voters Will Decide Saturday Whether to Expand Streetcar (Star)
- Curbed Takes a Deep Dive Into the Atlanta BeltLine’s Affordability Issues
- Utah Will Spend $1 Billion on 19-Mile, Sprawl-Creating Freeway (Salt Lake Tribune)
- Is Amazon Eyeing Philly’s Future Amtrak Station Site for Second HQ? (Curbed)
- Bike-Share Succeeds at Penn State (PSU News) But Not Mason City, IA (Globe Gazette)
- Portland Firms Up Bus Stop Designs (Bike Portland); Lets Students Paint Bike Lanes (KATU)
- With Dockless Bike-Share, People in D.C. Are Leaving Their Bikes Just Wherever (Post)
- Cycling Advocates Should Argue That Bike Infrastructure Saves Money (Strong Towns)
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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