Today’s Headlines
Portland Seeks Public Input on MAX Southwest Corridor Light Rail (Tribune) Albuquerque BRT Will Be Running by the End of the Month (KOB) Milwaukee Holds Meetings to Discuss Streetcar Extensions (urbanmilwaukee) New Group Forms to Build Support for Omaha Streetcar (North Platte Telegraph) Cleveland Ruling on Transit Fare Checks Could Affect Pittsburgh, Too (Post-Gazette) Auto-Centric … Continued
By
Blake Aued
9:00 AM EST on November 6, 2017
- Portland Seeks Public Input on MAX Southwest Corridor Light Rail (Tribune)
- Albuquerque BRT Will Be Running by the End of the Month (KOB)
- Milwaukee Holds Meetings to Discuss Streetcar Extensions (urbanmilwaukee)
- New Group Forms to Build Support for Omaha Streetcar (North Platte Telegraph)
- Cleveland Ruling on Transit Fare Checks Could Affect Pittsburgh, Too (Post-Gazette)
- Auto-Centric Cities Are Discriminatory, Expensive, and Unhealthy (Strong Towns)
- Bikelash Strikes in Southwest Baltimore (WBAL)
- Pittsburgh Steeler JuJu Smith-Schuster Is a Bike Advocate (Grist)
- New York Is the Road-Ragiest City, Based on Instagram Hashtags (WaPo)
- New Bike-Share Roundup: Montgomery County, MD (Post), Tucson, AZ (News Now), Lancaster, PA (LancasterOnline), Santa Cruz, CA (Sentinel), Eugene, OR (Daily Emerald), Furman University (Greenville Journal) and Bloomington, IN (News Tribune)
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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