Today’s Headlines
Cities Struggle to Measure Ride-Hailing’s Effect on Traffic (Atlantic) Brightline Up and Running Between Palm Beach and Fort Lauderdale (TC Palm) San Antonio: Policy Requiring Property Owners to Pay for Sidewalks Is Unfair (Express News) Denver’s New L-Line Trains Expected to Improve On-Time Service (Post) Making Philadelphia Bike-Friendlier Could Help Woo Amazon (WHYY) Dems Fret … Continued
By
Blake Aued
9:00 AM EST on January 17, 2018
- Cities Struggle to Measure Ride-Hailing’s Effect on Traffic (Atlantic)
- Brightline Up and Running Between Palm Beach and Fort Lauderdale (TC Palm)
- San Antonio: Policy Requiring Property Owners to Pay for Sidewalks Is Unfair (Express News)
- Denver’s New L-Line Trains Expected to Improve On-Time Service (Post)
- Making Philadelphia Bike-Friendlier Could Help Woo Amazon (WHYY)
- Dems Fret That Cutting Cab Fee Could Endanger Tacoma Light Rail (News Tribune)
- Sacramento Launches On-Demand Microtransit Service (Bee)
- Lyft CEO: Autonomous Cars Will Turn Drivers Into “Hosts” (Las Vegas Review-Journal)
- 38 Places to Go Near Charlotte’s New Blue Line Stations (Agenda)
- America’s Ginormous Vehicles Are Getting Too Big for Parking Spots (Detroit Free Press)
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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