Today's Headlines

Today’s Headlines

Trump Infrastructure Plan Leans Heavily on Cities and States (Governing) Koch-Backed Group Will Try to Defeat Nashville Transit Referendum (Tennessean) Gimenez Blames Absentee Workers — Not Funding Cuts — for Dirty Miami Trains (Herald) Metro Detroit Leaders Want to Improve Transit But Don’t Know How (MLive) Downtown Atlanta Development Could Kill Plans for Future Rail … Continued

By Blake Aued

8:58 AM EST on January 25, 2018

Trump Infrastructure Plan Leans Heavily on Cities and States (Governing)
Koch-Backed Group Will Try to Defeat Nashville Transit Referendum (Tennessean)
Gimenez Blames Absentee Workers — Not Funding Cuts — for Dirty Miami Trains (Herald)
Metro Detroit Leaders Want to Improve Transit But Don’t Know How (MLive)
Downtown Atlanta Development Could Kill Plans for Future Rail (ThreadATL)
State Will Fund Downtown Dallas Streetcar Extension (Dallas News)
Nonprofit Will Bring Bikes to Underserved San Antonio Neighborhood (Texas Public Radio)
St. Louis Group Lobbies City to Fill Bike/Ped Coordinator Position (NextSTL)
Asheville Council Criticizes Car-Centric Plan to Widen Main Road (Citizen-Times)
MassBike: Police Should Have Charged Driver in Cyclist’s 2015 Death (Boston Globe)
CNBC Compiles the Dirt on Ousted Uber CEO Travis Kalanick

Blake Aued

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.

Today's Headlines

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