Today’s Headlines
Atlanta Expanding Transit as Ridership Declines (AJC) DC Should Make Stanley Cup Traffic Restrictions Permanent (Mobility Lab) Lawsuit Challenges Seattle Light Rail Expansion (KOMO, KIRO, Weekly) Who Knew What When About NoVa Metro Station Cuts? (Washington Post) Feds Give Wisconsin $160 Million for I-94 Construction (Journal Times) Charlotte Plans to Close Gap in Bike/Walking Path … Continued
By
Blake Aued
12:11 PM EDT on June 8, 2018
- Atlanta Expanding Transit as Ridership Declines (AJC)
- DC Should Make Stanley Cup Traffic Restrictions Permanent (Mobility Lab)
- Lawsuit Challenges Seattle Light Rail Expansion (KOMO, KIRO, Weekly)
- Who Knew What When About NoVa Metro Station Cuts? (Washington Post)
- Feds Give Wisconsin $160 Million for I-94 Construction (Journal Times)
- Charlotte Plans to Close Gap in Bike/Walking Path Along Blue Line (Observer)
- FTA Wants Hawaii to Sell Light-Rail Bonds It Doesn’t Need (Civil Beat)
- Investors Wary of Plan to Cap Atlanta Freeway With Park (Curbed)
- Oregon Transit Agency Cuts and Simplifies Fares (Daily Astorian)
- An E-Scooter Skeptic Is Converted (NYT)
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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