Today’s Headlines
Man Deliberately Plows Down NYC Bike Path in Truck, Killing 8 (NYT, Bloomberg) Assailant Drove for Uber But Passed Background Checks (TechCrunch) Autonomous Shuttles as a Last-Mile Transit Option (Mobility Lab) Dallas Will Open 20 Miles of Streets to People on Bikes Saturday for Car-Free Event (KERA) Minneapolis Reopens Bidding for Southwest Corridor Light Rail (MPR) … Continued
By
Blake Aued
9:04 AM EDT on November 1, 2017
- Man Deliberately Plows Down NYC Bike Path in Truck, Killing 8 (NYT, Bloomberg)
- Assailant Drove for Uber But Passed Background Checks (TechCrunch)
- Autonomous Shuttles as a Last-Mile Transit Option (Mobility Lab)
- Dallas Will Open 20 Miles of Streets to People on Bikes Saturday for Car-Free Event (KERA)
- Minneapolis Reopens Bidding for Southwest Corridor Light Rail (MPR)
- Failure to Submit Letter May Threaten Baltimore Transpo Projects (Sun)
- San Diego Isn’t Tracking How Many Commuters Ditch Cars (Union-Tribune)
- Cincinnati Candidates Don’t Want to Talk About the Streetcar (Enquirer)
- Montgomery County, MD, and Hudson County, NJ, Adopt Vision Zero (Community Media, NJ.com)
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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