Today's Headlines

Today’s Headlines

Blue States and Transit Get the Shaft Under Trump Infrastructure Plan (Politico) Failure to Raise Gas Tax Makes Trump Infrastructure Plan a “Joke” (Daily Beast) Texans Dislike Plan (American-Statesman), Except for Fort Worth Mayor (Dallas News) Trump Promises to Approve Miami Rail Permits “So Fast Your Head Will Spin” (Herald) Trump Budget Trims D.C. Metro … Continued

By Blake Aued

8:59 AM EST on February 14, 2018

Blue States and Transit Get the Shaft Under Trump Infrastructure Plan (Politico)
Failure to Raise Gas Tax Makes Trump Infrastructure Plan a “Joke” (Daily Beast)
Texans Dislike Plan (American-Statesman), Except for Fort Worth Mayor (Dallas News)
Trump Promises to Approve Miami Rail Permits “So Fast Your Head Will Spin” (Herald)
Trump Budget Trims D.C. Metro Subsidy by $30 Million (WaPo)
Detroit Streetcar Delayed After Driver Parks Too Close to Tracks (Free Press)
Birmingham Plan Includes 800 Miles of Bike/Ped Paths and Trails (WBRC)
Oklahoma City’s First Streetcar Arrives (Oklahoman, KFOR)
Wired Lays Out the Case for Taxing Vehicles by the Mile

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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