Today’s Headlines
Study Says Larry Hogan’s Toll Lanes Won’t Make Maryland Freeways Less Congested (WaPo) Costs Could Rise for Minneapolis’ Southwest Light Rail Line (Star Tribune) With Google’s Lyft Investment, Ride-Hailing Is a Battle of Billionaires (Economic Times) Phoenix Installs Flex Posts to Keep Drivers Out of Bike Lanes (ABC 15) Portland Puts an Interactive Bike Map … Continued
By
Blake Aued
9:05 AM EDT on October 23, 2017
- Study Says Larry Hogan’s Toll Lanes Won’t Make Maryland Freeways Less Congested (WaPo)
- Costs Could Rise for Minneapolis’ Southwest Light Rail Line (Star Tribune)
- With Google’s Lyft Investment, Ride-Hailing Is a Battle of Billionaires (Economic Times)
- Phoenix Installs Flex Posts to Keep Drivers Out of Bike Lanes (ABC 15)
- Portland Puts an Interactive Bike Map Online (Government Technology)
- Fort Worth Road Construction Endangers Bus Riders (Star-Telegram)
- Should Boulder Launch a Regional Transit Authority? (Daily Camera)
- Hartford Tries to Redevelop Parking Lots Where Demolished Buildings Once Sat (Courant)
- Instead of Building Sidewalks, Cedar Rapids Just Stripes Wide Shoulders (Gazette)
- Uber Gives Paris Travel Data to Help Urban Planning (Reuters, Fortune)
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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