Today’s Headlines
Trump Wants to Erode 150 Years of Federal Support for Infrastructure (Seattle Times) You Could Double What We Spend on Walking and Biking With a 1 Cent Gas Tax (Mobility Lab) Elon Musk Has Started Hyperloop Digging in D.C. and WaPo Is Skeptical Positive Train Control Could Prevent a Crash Every Other Day (Charleston Post and … Continued
By
Blake Aued
11:06 AM EST on February 20, 2018
- Trump Wants to Erode 150 Years of Federal Support for Infrastructure (Seattle Times)
- You Could Double What We Spend on Walking and Biking With a 1 Cent Gas Tax (Mobility Lab)
- Elon Musk Has Started Hyperloop Digging in D.C. and WaPo Is Skeptical
- Positive Train Control Could Prevent a Crash Every Other Day (Charleston Post and Courier)
- Minneapolis Planning 10 More Bus Rapid Transit Lines (Star-Tribune)
- Yes, the North Spokane Corridor Freeway Is Still Happening (Spokesman-Review)
- Massachusetts Awards Complete Streets Funds to Springfield (WWLP)
- Bus Ridership Down 24 Percent in South Bend, Indiana (South Bend Tribune)
- Cycling Getting More Popular in Wilmington, NC (Star News)
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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