Today’s Headlines
Options Unveiled for Maryland’s Beltway/270 Boondoggle (WaPo) DC Residents Rally for Safer Streets, Call on Mayor Bowser to Act (GGW) Herald: South Miami Should Embrace Bus Rapid Transit Richard Florida: Car Dependence Is Another Political Dividing Line (CityLab) Philadelphia Tries to Tackle Its Bike-Share Equity Problem (Mobility Lab) Just 70 Percent of Seattle Bike-Share Bikes … Continued
By
Blake Aued
12:13 PM EDT on July 20, 2018
- Options Unveiled for Maryland’s Beltway/270 Boondoggle (WaPo)
- DC Residents Rally for Safer Streets, Call on Mayor Bowser to Act (GGW)
- Herald: South Miami Should Embrace Bus Rapid Transit
- Richard Florida: Car Dependence Is Another Political Dividing Line (CityLab)
- Philadelphia Tries to Tackle Its Bike-Share Equity Problem (Mobility Lab)
- Just 70 Percent of Seattle Bike-Share Bikes Are in Rideable Shape (Seattle Times)
- Cincinnati Finds Solution to Bus Stop-Blocking Streetcar (Enquirer)
- Massachusetts Lawmakers Add $8M to Budget for Transit (CommonWealth)
- Durham Plans 400 Apartments on Parking Lots Near Rail Stop (Herald Sun)
- Former British MP Calls for 20 MPH Speed Limits (BBC)
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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