Today’s Headlines
Small Businesses Urge DC Metro to Expand Service and Lower Fares (Post) Seattle Council Members Skeptical of New Streetcar (KIRO) Bikelash Hits Twin Cities as Bike Lanes Spread (Star Tribune) Utah Legislators Can’t Agree on Transit Reforms (Deseret News) Next City Dives Into U.S.’s Only Private High-Speed Rail: Florida’s Brightline Study: Self-Driving Cars Will Lead … Continued
By
Blake Aued
9:01 AM EDT on October 24, 2017
- Small Businesses Urge DC Metro to Expand Service and Lower Fares (Post)
- Seattle Council Members Skeptical of New Streetcar (KIRO)
- Bikelash Hits Twin Cities as Bike Lanes Spread (Star Tribune)
- Utah Legislators Can’t Agree on Transit Reforms (Deseret News)
- Next City Dives Into U.S.’s Only Private High-Speed Rail: Florida’s Brightline
- Study: Self-Driving Cars Will Lead to Denser City Cores AND More Sprawl (The Drive)
- Omaha Transit Buys 28 Smoother, Cleaner New Buses (World-Herald)
- Art Project Leads to Return of Streetcars to El Paso and Juarez (T4America)
- The “Complaining About Bike Clutter” Craze Comes to Dallas (NBC 5)
- Wait, Is the Maryland Hyperloop Leg Actually Happening? (Post; WAMU)
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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