Today’s Headlines
Trump Tries to Convince Investors His Infrastructure Plan Is Legit (Reuters) Boston’s Green Line Cleared to Award Construction Contracts This Fall (Boston Globe) Bertha Is Almost Done Boring Seattle’s Big, Expensive, Wasteful Highway Tunnel (Seattle Times) Seattle Moves to Curb the Power of NIMBY Homeowners (NextCity) Study: One in Four Drivers Who Crash Were Using the Phone … Continued
8:57 AM EDT on April 5, 2017
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- Trump Tries to Convince Investors His Infrastructure Plan Is Legit (Reuters)
- Boston’s Green Line Cleared to Award Construction Contracts This Fall (Boston Globe)
- Bertha Is Almost Done Boring Seattle’s Big, Expensive, Wasteful Highway Tunnel (Seattle Times)
- Seattle Moves to Curb the Power of NIMBY Homeowners (NextCity)
- Study: One in Four Drivers Who Crash Were Using the Phone (Boston Globe)
- Why Are People Leaving American Cities Like New York? (The Atlantic)
- Under Pressure, Grand Rapids Backs Down, Decides Not to Ban Downtown Parking Lots (Mlive.com)
- Car Demand Collapse Threatens Trump’s Plans to Revive Auto Factories (Bloomberg)
Angie is a Cleveland-based writer with a background in planning and newspaper reporting. She has been writing about cities for Streetsblog for six years.
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