Today’s Headlines
Schumer Says No to Gas Tax Hike to Pay for Infrastructure (Daily Beast) American Cities Are Doing Vision Zero Wrong (Treehugger) Should Seattle Ban Bikes on Sidewalks? (My Northwest) Wisconsin City Proposes “Wheel Tax” to Pay for Sidewalk Repairs (WFRV) Ride-Hailing Services Are Turning Curbs Into Battlegrounds (Wired) A Month After $1 Billion Investment, Lyft … Continued
By
Blake Aued
9:19 AM EST on November 27, 2017
- Schumer Says No to Gas Tax Hike to Pay for Infrastructure (Daily Beast)
- American Cities Are Doing Vision Zero Wrong (Treehugger)
- Should Seattle Ban Bikes on Sidewalks? (My Northwest)
- Wisconsin City Proposes “Wheel Tax” to Pay for Sidewalk Repairs (WFRV)
- Ride-Hailing Services Are Turning Curbs Into Battlegrounds (Wired)
- A Month After $1 Billion Investment, Lyft Raising Another $500M (Axios)
- Governments Worldwide Launch Investigations Into Uber Data Hack (Reuters)
- Boston Transit Asks City to Trade Parking for Bus Lanes (Globe)
- Tulsa Buses Now Run on Sundays (Tulsa World)
- Why Can’t Digital Assistants Tell You When the Bus Is Coming? (Venture Beat)
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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