Today’s Headlines
What Will Google Do With the Data Its “Smart City” Collects? (WaPo) City Lab Did a Piece on Ghost Bike Memorials DC Streetcar Station Destroyed by Megabus Reopens (DCist) The Stranger: Seattle Mayor Is Out to Kill the Center City Connector Dems Want Atlanta Suburb to Reschedule Transit Referendum (AJC) Derailment Damages Pittsburgh Light Rail Line … Continued
By
Blake Aued
10:41 AM EDT on August 13, 2018
- What Will Google Do With the Data Its “Smart City” Collects? (WaPo)
- City Lab Did a Piece on Ghost Bike Memorials
- DC Streetcar Station Destroyed by Megabus Reopens (DCist)
- The Stranger: Seattle Mayor Is Out to Kill the Center City Connector
- Dems Want Atlanta Suburb to Reschedule Transit Referendum (AJC)
- Derailment Damages Pittsburgh Light Rail Line (Post-Gazette)
- Utah’s New Express Bus Will Be Free to Ride for Three Years (SLC Tribune)
- Arizona State Rep Pushes for Light Rail (Valley Central)
- Drivers Are Parking in Bike Lanes in St. Louis (KMOV)
- A Boston Parking Space Is for Sale for $345,000 (Globe)
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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