Today’s Headlines
Letters to Milwaukee Mayor Run Five-to-One Against Streetcar (Fox 6) Boston Cracks Down on Residential Speeders (Daily Free Press) More Drivers Are Stopping at Ann Arbor Crosswalks (Michigan Daily) Downtown Des Moines Plan Calls for Fewer Car Lanes, More Bike Lanes (Register) Miami’s Problem Isn’t Scarce Parking, It’s Too Many Cars (Herald) Oklahoma City Streetcars … Continued
By
Blake Aued
9:36 AM EST on November 8, 2017
- Letters to Milwaukee Mayor Run Five-to-One Against Streetcar (Fox 6)
- Boston Cracks Down on Residential Speeders (Daily Free Press)
- More Drivers Are Stopping at Ann Arbor Crosswalks (Michigan Daily)
- Downtown Des Moines Plan Calls for Fewer Car Lanes, More Bike Lanes (Register)
- Miami’s Problem Isn’t Scarce Parking, It’s Too Many Cars (Herald)
- Oklahoma City Streetcars Could Go Driverless (News 9)
- Transit Is the Dominant Issue in Cincinnati Politics (WCPO)
- D.C. Council Bill Would Raise Sales Tax to Fund Metro (Post)
- 70 Percent of Seattle Commuters Walk, Bike, or Take Transit (Mobility Lab)
- Autonomous Chinese “Rail Bus” Treats the Street Like a Track (Curbed)
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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