Today’s Headlines
Are Some City Residents “Ditching” Cars, or Can They Just Not Afford Them? (Governing) It’s Been 322 Days. VICE Colorfully Asks, Where Is Trump’s Infrastructure Plan? Google Maps Will Tell Transit Users When to Get Off (Tech Crunch) D.C. Metro’s Red-Line Outsourcing Could Be a Sign of Things to Come (Post) Ohio Now Contributes Just … Continued
By
Blake Aued
9:00 AM EST on December 11, 2017
- Are Some City Residents “Ditching” Cars, or Can They Just Not Afford Them? (Governing)
- It’s Been 322 Days. VICE Colorfully Asks, Where Is Trump’s Infrastructure Plan?
- Google Maps Will Tell Transit Users When to Get Off (Tech Crunch)
- D.C. Metro’s Red-Line Outsourcing Could Be a Sign of Things to Come (Post)
- Ohio Now Contributes Just $7 Million to Public Transit (Crain’s Cleveland)
- World-Herald Looks at Cincinnati and Kansas City’s Streetcars, and Omaha’s Own History
- Oklahoma City Officials Celebrate Restoration of 1930s Train Station (NewsOK)
- PennDOT Finishes Bike Lanes on Three Philly-Area Highways (Daily Local News)
- Crosscut Test-Drives Seattle’s New Bike-Shares
- Didi Chuxing, China’s Uber, Is Coming to the U.S. (The Drive)
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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