Today’s Headlines
Long Resistant, Gwinnett County, GA, Voters Now Support Sales Tax for Transit (AJC) Baltimore Will Remake Street to Prioritize Bikes and Transit (Sun) Glendale, AZ, Council Nixes Downtown Light-Rail Study (KJZZ) Hawaii State Senator Opposes Complete Street, Wants “More Lanes and More Roads” (News Now) Seattle Bike-Shares Brace Themselves, Winter Is Coming (The Stranger) Columbus’s … Continued
By
Blake Aued
9:23 AM EDT on October 20, 2017
- Long Resistant, Gwinnett County, GA, Voters Now Support Sales Tax for Transit (AJC)
- Baltimore Will Remake Street to Prioritize Bikes and Transit (Sun)
- Glendale, AZ, Council Nixes Downtown Light-Rail Study (KJZZ)
- Hawaii State Senator Opposes Complete Street, Wants “More Lanes and More Roads” (News Now)
- Seattle Bike-Shares Brace Themselves, Winter Is Coming (The Stranger)
- Columbus’s Amazon Bid Includes Complete Streets, Self-Driving Shuttles (Dispatch)
- App Helps Texas Figure Out Where Cyclists and Pedestrians Actually Go (TPR)
- Omaha Adopts Vision Zero Goals (News Herald)
- Uber Tests Autonomous Cars in a Fake City in Pittsburgh (Business Insider)
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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