Today’s Headlines
Dems Wise Up to Trump’s Infrastructure Plan (Politico) Governing Looks at Alternatives to Gas Taxes for Transpo Funding After EU Ruling, How Long Can Uber Keep Denying It’s a Cab Company? (Salon) Baltimore Missed Out on Half a Million Dollars in Parking Fines (Sun) Utah Free Fare Day Took 17,000 Cars Off the Road, But … Continued
By
Blake Aued
9:26 AM EST on January 18, 2018
- Dems Wise Up to Trump’s Infrastructure Plan (Politico)
- Governing Looks at Alternatives to Gas Taxes for Transpo Funding
- After EU Ruling, How Long Can Uber Keep Denying It’s a Cab Company? (Salon)
- Baltimore Missed Out on Half a Million Dollars in Parking Fines (Sun)
- Utah Free Fare Day Took 17,000 Cars Off the Road, But UTA Can’t Afford It Again (KUTV)
- Cincinnati Planner Calls for More Walkable Neighborhoods (Soapbox)
- The Las Vegas Monorail Is So Popular, It Doesn’t Need a Subsidy (Sun)
- Stop Running Into Trains, and More Ways Houston Drivers Can Suck Less (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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