Today’s Headlines
D.C. Metro Strategy Group Can’t Agree on Dedicated Sales Tax (WAMU) Megan Barry Files for May Referendum on Nashville Transit Plan (Tennessean) Cleveland Wins Funding for Its First Two Protected Bike Lanes (Plain Dealer) Buffalo Cab Drivers: Regulate Ride-Hailing or Deregulate Taxis (News) Omaha Considers Cincinnati’s Streetcar a Cautionary Tale (Inquirer) Top Milwaukee Official Opposes … Continued
By
Blake Aued
9:48 AM EST on December 12, 2017
- D.C. Metro Strategy Group Can’t Agree on Dedicated Sales Tax (WAMU)
- Megan Barry Files for May Referendum on Nashville Transit Plan (Tennessean)
- Cleveland Wins Funding for Its First Two Protected Bike Lanes (Plain Dealer)
- Buffalo Cab Drivers: Regulate Ride-Hailing or Deregulate Taxis (News)
- Omaha Considers Cincinnati’s Streetcar a Cautionary Tale (Inquirer)
- Top Milwaukee Official Opposes Free Parking on Lakefront (Fox 6)
- D.C.’s New Dockless Bikes Haven’t Cost Capital Bikeshare Riders (WTOP)
- Madison Bike-Share on Track to Shatter Ridership Record (State Journal)
- High-Speed Rail Cuts Munich-Berlin Travel Time By Two Hours (DW)
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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