Today’s Headlines
Cities, States, and Feds Used Infrastructure to Enforce Redlining (Guardian) DOT Mulls How to Regulate Autonomous Vehicles (WaPo) Chao Spars With Dems Over Fast-Tracking Environmental Review (Roll Call) Study: Uber and Lyft Drivers Earn Half the Minimum Wage (NPR, USA Today) How NACTO’s Guidance Led to an Explosion of Bike Lanes (The Atlantic) Transit Funding … Continued
By
Blake Aued
9:09 AM EST on March 5, 2018
- Cities, States, and Feds Used Infrastructure to Enforce Redlining (Guardian)
- DOT Mulls How to Regulate Autonomous Vehicles (WaPo)
- Chao Spars With Dems Over Fast-Tracking Environmental Review (Roll Call)
- Study: Uber and Lyft Drivers Earn Half the Minimum Wage (NPR, USA Today)
- How NACTO’s Guidance Led to an Explosion of Bike Lanes (The Atlantic)
- Transit Funding Bills Advance Through Georgia Legislature (Gwinnett Daily Post)
- New Orleans Puts Off Study on Streetcar Expansion (Times-Picayune)
- Seattle’s Sound Transit CEO Accused of Bias in Workplace Conduct (Crosscut)
- Cleveland Planning Hundreds of Miles of Bike Trails and Lanes (Next City)
- Absentee Voting on Kansas City Streetcar Starts Today (Star)
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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