Today’s Headlines
DC Delegate Wants Hearing on Metro Contingency Shutdown Plan (WaPo) Vision Zero Texas: Prioritize Lives Over Driving Fast (KXAN) Cities Flummoxed By Bird Scooters (Next City) The Rise and Fall of Chinese Dockless Bike-Share Outfit Ofo (CityLab) Capital Bikeshare Pays Riders to Move Bikes From Full to Empty Docks (DCist) Court Could Rule on Missouri … Continued
By
Blake Aued
8:08 AM EDT on August 9, 2018
- DC Delegate Wants Hearing on Metro Contingency Shutdown Plan (WaPo)
- Vision Zero Texas: Prioritize Lives Over Driving Fast (KXAN)
- Cities Flummoxed By Bird Scooters (Next City)
- The Rise and Fall of Chinese Dockless Bike-Share Outfit Ofo (CityLab)
- Capital Bikeshare Pays Riders to Move Bikes From Full to Empty Docks (DCist)
- Court Could Rule on Missouri Gas Tax Referendum Next Week (Post-Dispatch)
- Homeowners Sound Transit Is Evicting for Light Rail Line Seem OK With It (KIRO)
- Judge Rules Against Cabbies, Upholds Law Allowing Uber and Lyft (Palm Beach Post)
- Fast-Growing Gainesville, Georgia, Could Lose Federal Transit Funding (Gainesville Times)
- U of Delaware Orders Students Ticketed While Walking to Take Class (News Journal)
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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