Today’s Headlines
Foxx Crusades Against the Segregating Legacy of Urban Freeways (WaPo) Meanwhile, Some U.S. Cities Are Doubling Down on Highway Spending (CityLab) California Lawmakers Scrutinize High-Speed Rail Plans (AP) How Larry Hogan Reduced Maryland’s Purple Line Budget (WAMU) States vs. Cities: Battles Play Out Across the Country (Governing) CTFastTrak Looks to Build on First Year Successes (Hartford Courant) In Charlotte, … Continued
March 29, 2016
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MARTA Expansion Will Go to Atlanta Voters (Creative Loafing Atlanta) Seattle Transit Expansion Plans Have People Asking “Why So Long?” (KOMO News) DC Metro Turns 40 at a Tumultuous Time (WTOP) Dallas Bus Service Overhaul Takes Different Approach Than Houston (AP) NJ Transit Faces $57M Budget Gap (NorthJersey.com) Study: Chicago Has an Apartment Parking Glut (Chicago Trib) Boise’s New … Continued
March 28, 2016
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Seattle’s $50B Light Rail Package Will Go to Voters This Fall (The Stranger) Population Shifted to Sunbelt and the Burbs Last Year (CityLab) …While Chicago Saw Greater Losses Than Any Metro Area (Chicago Trib) L.A. Advocates, Citizens Scrutinize $120B Transit Plans (LA Times) How Will California’s High-Speed Rail Fare at the Polls? (Sac Bee) GGW Takes Issue With Turning Rockville … Continued
March 25, 2016
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Are the Feds Handling DC Metro Oversight the Right Way? (American Prospect) Cities Strive to Take On-Demand Mobility Beyond Uber (Next City) Hawaii Struggles to Complete Its Costly Rail Project (NYT) How Transportation Has Figured Into Baltimore’s Inequalities (Places Journal) LA Times: Transit Maintenance Funding Is Key to Avoid Mistakes of DC and SF Cycling Advocates Across … Continued
March 22, 2016
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L.A. Metro’s 40-Year Game Plan (LA Times) Federal Inspection “Blitz” Follows D.C. Metro Shutdown Last Week (WTOP) How the New National Transit Map Could Pinpoint Transit Deserts (WaPo) Why BART Got Frank on Twitter About the System’s Problems (Verge) Politico on How Congress Undermined Its Own City’s Metro Minneapolis Light Rail Has One More Shot … Continued
March 21, 2016
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U.S. DOT, Sidewalk Labs Team Up to Tackle Urban Congestion (NYT, Ars Technica) Poor DC Residents Were Hardest Hit By Metro Shutdown (GGW) Google Wants Feds to Clear Roadblocks for Driverless Car Tech (AP) Atlanta Mayor Expands on New $2.5B Transit Plans (AJC) Boston’s T Explores Ways to Mitigate Late-Night Service Cancellation (Boston Globe) Ride-Sharing Does Enhance Transit… For Rich People … Continued
March 18, 2016
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Feds Want to See Two-Member Crews on Trains (WaPo) Foxx “Not Surprised” by Google’s Self-Driving Car Crash (Tech Times) Seattle City Council Devotes Public Funds to Bike-Share (Crosscut) Silicon Valley’s BART Extension Gets Federal Approval (KLIV) Amalgamated Transit Union Backs Bernie Sanders (International Biz Times) Study: Minneapolis High-Schoolers See Improved Outcomes When They Use Transit (StarTrib) Downtown Transit … Continued
March 15, 2016
Today’s Headlines
DOT Narrows “Smart City Challenge” Down to Seven Finalists… (WaPo) …Including Kansas City, Denver, Austin (KC Star, Denver Post, KXAN) LA Would See Range of Major Transit Projects If Voters Approve $120B Tax (LA Times) Report: Feds Aren’t Ready to Regulate Driverless Cars (The Verge) How the New UW Light Rail Station Could Transform Seattle (Seattle Times) … Continued
March 14, 2016
Today’s Headlines
NYT Talks With Anthony Foxx on Upbringing, Leadership Style What Does the Future Hold for LA Transit? (LA Weekly) Vegas Takes Lessons From Denver Light Rail (Review-Journal) New Hampshire Lawmakers Halt Commuter Rail Study (NHPR) Long Beach Unrolls Bike-Share (KPCC) Cyclists, Pedestrians Account for 1 in 4 Traffic Deaths in NY, NJ (MTR) Developers Plan $50M Project … Continued
March 11, 2016
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Janette Sadik-Khan: The Bike Wars Are Over, and the Bikes Won (NY Mag) Boston Transit OKs Fare Hike Amid Protests (Boston.com) How Uber and Lyft Can Help Transit Agencies (Brookings) States Start Prepping for Driverless Cars (Governing) St. Paul’s Varied Paths for Transit-Oriented Development (The Line) Governing: BRT’s Not as Sexy as Light Rail, But Don’t … Continued
March 8, 2016