Today’s Headlines
Cities and States Are Getting Better at Regulating Ride-Sharing (Biz Insider) Past Tampa Transit Votes Failed — Will This One Be Different? (TB Times) New DC Bus-Only Lane Is So Full of Cars, It’s a Joke (WaPo) Seattle Complete Streets Program Tries to Keep Pace With Growth (Sightline) Urban Milwaukee Offers Behind the Scenes Look … Continued
By
Blake Aued
10:33 AM EDT on August 14, 2018
- Cities and States Are Getting Better at Regulating Ride-Sharing (Biz Insider)
- Past Tampa Transit Votes Failed — Will This One Be Different? (TB Times)
- New DC Bus-Only Lane Is So Full of Cars, It’s a Joke (WaPo)
- Seattle Complete Streets Program Tries to Keep Pace With Growth (Sightline)
- Urban Milwaukee Offers Behind the Scenes Look at New Streetcar
- Baton Rouge Switches Gears From Tram to Bus Rapid Transit (Advocate)
- What Will Happen to Discarded Ofo Bikes? (My Northwest, Curbed Atlanta)
- The Courier Journal Explains Bird Scooters to Louisville
- Las Cruces Plan Would Double Size of Bike Lane Network (Sun News)
- Urban Planning Meme Facebook Group Splinters Over Politics (NY Times)
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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