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Today’s Headlines

28 Years After Rejecting MARTA, Gwinnett County Could Vote on Transit Again (AJC) VP Hired to Fix Uber’s Culture Leaves After Eight Months (Recode, NY Mag) Miami Now Plans to Use Small Pods Instead of Trains for Beach Link (Miami Today) Transit Proposal Would Cut Boston-Providence Trip by 40 Percent (MassLive, Providence Journal) Dockless Scooters … Continued

By Blake Aued

9:18 AM EST on March 1, 2018

28 Years After Rejecting MARTA, Gwinnett County Could Vote on Transit Again (AJC)
VP Hired to Fix Uber’s Culture Leaves After Eight Months (Recode, NY Mag)
Miami Now Plans to Use Small Pods Instead of Trains for Beach Link (Miami Today)
Transit Proposal Would Cut Boston-Providence Trip by 40 Percent (MassLive, Providence Journal)
Dockless Scooters Join Bike-Share in D.C. (WJLA, WAMU, WTOP)
Orlando Will Experiment With Road Diet on Five-Lane Road (Sentinel)
Dallas Might Start Charging to Ride Its Streetcar (News)
Tulsa Bike-Share Starts With 25 Stations, 160 Bikes (World)
France’s First Dockless Bike-Share Shut Down Because Kids Destroyed the Bikes (NPR)

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.

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