Today’s Headlines
Federal Court Allows Purple Line to Move Forward (Post, Reuters) Council Delays Minneapolis’s Southwest Line Again (Star Tribune) Cincy Transit Leaders Resign as Pressure Builds to Improve SORTA (WCPO) Dedicated Bus Lane Cuts Boston Trip Time by Four Minutes (Globe) Dallas Considers Regulating Dockless Bike-Share (Morning News) Ann Arbor Master Plan Includes Three-Mile, $55M Urban … Continued
By
Blake Aued
9:02 AM EST on December 21, 2017
- Federal Court Allows Purple Line to Move Forward (Post, Reuters)
- Council Delays Minneapolis’s Southwest Line Again (Star Tribune)
- Cincy Transit Leaders Resign as Pressure Builds to Improve SORTA (WCPO)
- Dedicated Bus Lane Cuts Boston Trip Time by Four Minutes (Globe)
- Dallas Considers Regulating Dockless Bike-Share (Morning News)
- Ann Arbor Master Plan Includes Three-Mile, $55M Urban Trail (MLive)
- Positive Train Control Isn’t Ready on Amtrak Cascades, TriMet (KATU)
- San Diego Could Improve Transit by Boosting Its Low Subsidies (Voice of SD)
- Philly Mag Writer Hates Philadelphia’s Parking Ticket Amnesty Period
- EU Court Rules Uber Is a Taxi, Not Tech, Company (WaPo)
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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