Today’s Headlines
Center for American Progress: Trump’s Infrastructure Plan Is a Scam Even Trump Doubts His Own Infrastructure Plan (CNBC, NBC News) D.C. Metro Expects Ridership to Decline This Year (WTOP) Uber and Waymo Settle Self-Driving Car Lawsuit (NPR, The Verge, CNBC) Free CATS Fare for UNC-Charlotte Students But Not Nearby HBCU (Observer) Campaign for Nashville Transit … Continued
By
Blake Aued
10:44 AM EST on February 12, 2018
- Center for American Progress: Trump’s Infrastructure Plan Is a Scam
- Even Trump Doubts His Own Infrastructure Plan (CNBC, NBC News)
- D.C. Metro Expects Ridership to Decline This Year (WTOP)
- Uber and Waymo Settle Self-Driving Car Lawsuit (NPR, The Verge, CNBC)
- Free CATS Fare for UNC-Charlotte Students But Not Nearby HBCU (Observer)
- Campaign for Nashville Transit Plan Kicks Off (Tennessean)
- Dallas Gets Serious About Making Bike-Share Companies Clean Up (News)
- LimeBike Gets Some Good Press By Cleaning Up Dallas Lake (NBC DFW)
- MARTA Considers Making the Low-Ridership Atlanta Streetcar Free Again (AJC)
- Bike Lanes Coming to Dayton (Daily News), Titusville (Herald), and Tucson (KVOA)
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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