Today’s Headlines
Senate Advances Trump DOT Nominee Despite Lack of Progress on Gateway Funding (Railway Age) Portland Suburbanites Want Better Transit Options (KATU) Seattle Times Transit Reporter Talks Trump, TODs, Monorail in Reddit AMA Electric Bike-Share Will Launch in Davis and Sacramento in 2018 (Enterprise) Uber Will Stop Exploiting Drivers With Bad Credit (Quartz) Baltimore Isn’t Enforcing … Continued
By
Blake Aued
9:31 AM EST on November 13, 2017
- Senate Advances Trump DOT Nominee Despite Lack of Progress on Gateway Funding (Railway Age)
- Portland Suburbanites Want Better Transit Options (KATU)
- Seattle Times Transit Reporter Talks Trump, TODs, Monorail in Reddit AMA
- Electric Bike-Share Will Launch in Davis and Sacramento in 2018 (Enterprise)
- Uber Will Stop Exploiting Drivers With Bad Credit (Quartz)
- Baltimore Isn’t Enforcing New Law Raising Fines for Parking in Bus Lanes (Sun)
- Streetcar Is St. Paul’s Latest Solution for an Airport-Mall Transit Connection (MPR)
- Milwaukee Businesses, Drivers Say Streetcar Construction’s No Big Deal (Fox 6)
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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