Today’s Headlines
As Ridership Falls, DC Metro Mulls Complete Overhaul (WaPo) Minneapolis Council Wants to Make D-Line BRT a Higher Priority (Star-Tribune) Columbus’s First BRT Line Is Running and Free This Week (Underground) After a Year of Scandals, Uber Takes a $20 Billion Haircut (Vanity Fair) These Are the Most Dangerous Intersections in Texas (Houston Press) Next … Continued
By
Blake Aued
9:03 AM EST on January 3, 2018
- As Ridership Falls, DC Metro Mulls Complete Overhaul (WaPo)
- Minneapolis Council Wants to Make D-Line BRT a Higher Priority (Star-Tribune)
- Columbus’s First BRT Line Is Running and Free This Week (Underground)
- After a Year of Scandals, Uber Takes a $20 Billion Haircut (Vanity Fair)
- These Are the Most Dangerous Intersections in Texas (Houston Press)
- Next City Highlights the Urban Transportation Ballot Initiatives of 2017
- Auto Capital Michigan Tries to Catch Up on Cycling Safety Laws (WTOP)
- Bikelash Strikes in Baltimore (WJZ)
- Montana Traffic Deaths Fall for Second Straight Year (Missoulian)
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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