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Trump Administration Wants to Expedite Road Expansion Projects (USA Today) Quartz Questions Whether Ride-Hailing Services Are Out to Kill Public Transit Suburbanites Mad About Paying More to Park at Metro Stations (WaPo) Mayor Landrieu Doubts Trump Infrastructure Plan Will Help Rebuild New Orleans (AP) Fort Lauderdale Mayor: Wave Is Key Cog in Future Transit System […]

Trump Plans to Cut $150 Million From D.C. Metro Budget (WaPo) Population Growth Fuels Major Bus Expansion in Houston (Chronicle) Here’s Where Seattle Drivers Are Most Likely to Be Distracted (My Northwest) Cincinnati Needs to Rebuild Streetcar Fleet So They Work in the Cold (Enquirer) Fort Lauderdale DDA Endorses Streetcar Ahead of Council Vote (WLRN) […]

Of Course Trump Blames Dems for Fatal West Virginia Train Crash (NBC News) Fort Worth Considers Cutting Police to Fund Transit Expansion (Star-Telegram) Philadelphia Bill Calls for More Development Along the El (Curbed) Uber Gets Into the Dockless Bike-Share Biz (The Drive, Gizmodo, The Verge) Companies Like Uber Are Fueling Inequality (WaPo) Metro Detroit Officials […]

Economists Ask Cities Not to Give Away the Farm to Amazon (Seattle Times) Trump’s Infrastructure Plan Is Just Like His Hotel Business (Vanity Fair) Northeastern Towns Try to Bring Back Regional Rail (Governing) Curbed Atlanta Has an Update on MARTA’s New Transit-Oriented Developments Despite Gripes, It’s Too Soon to Regulate Dallas Bike-Shares (D Magazine) New […]

Trump Infrastructure Plan Panned After State of the Union (WaPo, Roll Call, HuffPo) The Case for Cities to Make Transit Free (Mobility Lab) Jacksonville Jaywalking Enforcement Is Not Only Racist, But Hypocritical (Action News Jax) Portland Express Bus Faces Funding Shortfall, One-Year Delay (Oregonian) Suburban Atlanta Mayors Agree to Expand Bus Service (Reporter) Everyone Is […]

Politico Compares Trump’s Infrastructure Plan to the Hunger Games Democrats: The Money’s Not Enough, and Where Will It Come From? (Bloomberg) Safety Concerns Are Critics’ Latest Tactic to Threaten Florida’s Brightline (Guardian) Low-Income Boston Residents Can Now Use SNAP to Rent Bikes (AP) Tucson Is Writing a Complete Streets Policy (Arizona Daily Star) Ped/Bike Bridge […]