Today’s Headlines
Nashville Will Stay Stuck in Traffic: Transit Referendum Goes Down By Large Margin (Tennessean) Columbus’s First Protected Bike Lane Draws More Cyclists (Dispatch) Minneapolis Seeing a Boom in Walkable Urban Grocery Stores (City Pages) Charlotte Faces Challenges Retrofitting Industrial Area for Pedestrians (Agenda) Cambridge City Council Votes to Prioritize Bike Safety After Activists Stage Massive … Continued
By
Blake Aued
9:24 AM EDT on May 2, 2018
- Nashville Will Stay Stuck in Traffic: Transit Referendum Goes Down By Large Margin (Tennessean)
- Columbus’s First Protected Bike Lane Draws More Cyclists (Dispatch)
- Minneapolis Seeing a Boom in Walkable Urban Grocery Stores (City Pages)
- Charlotte Faces Challenges Retrofitting Industrial Area for Pedestrians (Agenda)
- Cambridge City Council Votes to Prioritize Bike Safety After Activists Stage Massive Rally (Day)
- Hit-and-Run Drivers Killed 2,000 People in Texas in 2016 (WOIA)
- Even Seattle Bike Lanes Aren’t Immune From Bloated Costs (Seattle Times)
- Richmond BRT Will Start Running June 24 (Times-Dispatch)
- Dallas Mayor Pro Tem: Dockless Bike-Share ‘Out of Control’ (NBCDFW)
- Next City: Dockless Bike-Share Here to Stay
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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