Today’s Headlines
More Cities Should Emulate Northern Virginia’s $40 Tolls (Wired) Seniors and Millennials Have Similar Transit Needs (Mobility Lab) Scandal-Plagued Uber Tries to Right the Ship (Slate, USA Today) D.C. Metro Board Considers New Station in Rosslyn (WaPo) Metro D.C. and NYC Are Where the Most Commuters Use Transit (GGW) Bike Lanes Mysteriously Vanish From Oklahoma … Continued
By
Blake Aued
9:23 AM EST on December 14, 2017
- More Cities Should Emulate Northern Virginia’s $40 Tolls (Wired)
- Seniors and Millennials Have Similar Transit Needs (Mobility Lab)
- Scandal-Plagued Uber Tries to Right the Ship (Slate, USA Today)
- D.C. Metro Board Considers New Station in Rosslyn (WaPo)
- Metro D.C. and NYC Are Where the Most Commuters Use Transit (GGW)
- Bike Lanes Mysteriously Vanish From Oklahoma City Boulevard Plan (NewsOK)
- Unpaid Pedestrian Fines Lead to Drivers License Suspensions and Worse in Jacksonville (ProPublica)
- Detroit Suburb Pontiac Installs Bike Racks and Bike Lane (Oakland Press)
- Boston Adds Protected Bike Lane on Beacon Street (WCVB)
- Houston Ripe for Tactical Urbanism (Chronicle)
- Rural Towns Can Implement Complete Streets, Too (Smart Growth America)
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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