Today’s Headlines
How Two States and DC Came Together to Fund WMATA (WaPo) Uber Had Problems With Autonomous Cars Well Before Tempe Crash (Fortune) Another Farcical Infrastructure Week Comes and Goes (Esquire) Measuring Bus and Bike Lane Blockage With Machine Learning (Fast Company) Vision Zero Can’t Come Fast Enough as Portland Traffic Deaths Outpace 2017 (KATU) Philadelphia … Continued
By
Blake Aued
10:12 AM EDT on March 26, 2018
- How Two States and DC Came Together to Fund WMATA (WaPo)
- Uber Had Problems With Autonomous Cars Well Before Tempe Crash (Fortune)
- Another Farcical Infrastructure Week Comes and Goes (Esquire)
- Measuring Bus and Bike Lane Blockage With Machine Learning (Fast Company)
- Vision Zero Can’t Come Fast Enough as Portland Traffic Deaths Outpace 2017 (KATU)
- Philadelphia Considers How to Handle Rising Number of Deliveries (WHYY)
- Michigan Police Look for Man Who Scratched Car Blocking Sidewalk — But Not the Driver Who Blocked the Sidewalk (MLive)
- Piles of Abandoned Bikes Are Everywhere in China (The Atlantic)
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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