Today’s Headlines
D.C. Metro Improves Performance, But Bus Ridership Declines (Post) Columnist: Houston’s Street Design Is Even Worse Than L.A.’s (Chronicle) Chicago Suburbs Redevelop Around Transit and Walkable Downtowns (Tribune) Portland (KOIN) and San Antonio (Rivard Report) Mourn People Killed by Drivers Students Spurn Transit for Uber and Lyft at University of Maryland (Diamondback) With CEO Leaving … Continued
By
Blake Aued
9:07 AM EST on November 21, 2017
- D.C. Metro Improves Performance, But Bus Ridership Declines (Post)
- Columnist: Houston’s Street Design Is Even Worse Than L.A.’s (Chronicle)
- Chicago Suburbs Redevelop Around Transit and Walkable Downtowns (Tribune)
- Portland (KOIN) and San Antonio (Rivard Report) Mourn People Killed by Drivers
- Students Spurn Transit for Uber and Lyft at University of Maryland (Diamondback)
- With CEO Leaving (Free Press), Curbed Asks Readers About Future of Detroit Transit
- Boise Will Raise Downtown Parking Rates (Idaho Statesman)
- Seattle’s Monorail Has Been Saved — For Now (My Northwest)
- The Chinese Bike-Share Boom Might Be Over (Quartz)
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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