Today’s Headlines
Massachusetts Budget Includes More Funding for Transit (WAMC 1, 2) Chapel Hill-Durham Light Rail Route May Lose Funding (WRAL) Henry County Leaders Hope for Transit Expansion South of Atlanta (Herald) DC Metro’s Ban on Paying Fares With Cash Has Some Riders Worried (WTOP) Suburban Kansas City Residents Fight for Trees Instead of a Road Widening … Continued
By
Blake Aued
9:25 AM EDT on May 30, 2018
- Massachusetts Budget Includes More Funding for Transit (WAMC 1, 2)
- Chapel Hill-Durham Light Rail Route May Lose Funding (WRAL)
- Henry County Leaders Hope for Transit Expansion South of Atlanta (Herald)
- DC Metro’s Ban on Paying Fares With Cash Has Some Riders Worried (WTOP)
- Suburban Kansas City Residents Fight for Trees Instead of a Road Widening (Star)
- Uber and Lyft Oppose Baton Rouge Ride-Hailing Regs (Advocate)
- Not Everyone Wants Google to Make Toronto a “Smart City” (Digital Journal)
- Maglev Trains Make More Sense Than Ever (The Guardian)
- Twitter Rant About the Media Makes Elon Musk a Hero to Anti-Semites (Jalopnik)
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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