Recent Streetsblog SOUTHEAST posts about Today’s Headlines

St. Petersburg Reacts to Pedestrian Deaths With Crackdown on Walking (Fox 13) Tampa Bay Times Columnist Thinks Parking Is a Right, Even at $26K a Space Boca Raton Driver Swerves Into Bike Lane and Kills Cyclist (Sun Sentinel) Cobb County Bus Drivers Call in Sick to Protest Payroll Problems (AJC) New Orleans Ferry Terminal Construction […]

Citizens Challenge Permits for I-73 in Myrtle Beach (Post and Courier) Alexandria Vision Zero Plan Includes Traffic Enforcement, Better Engineering (Times) VDOT Opens Bids for $3B Hampton Roads Bridge/Tunnel Project (CBS 19) No Easy Fixes for Danica Roem’s Pet Highway Project (Richmond Times-Dispatch) Accounting Firm Signs Off on Bonds for Nashville Transit Plan (Biz Journal) […]

Metro Atlanta Transpo Plan Would Dramatically Expand Bus Service (AJC) GA Legislators Will Discuss Regional Transit Agency for Atlanta (Gainesville Times) Feds Approve Brightline’s West Palm Beach-Orlando Leg (TC Palm) Changes to Downtown Jax Streets Should Make Them Safer for Walking (J Magazine) Megabus Discontinues DC-Knoxville-Atlanta Route (Collegiate Times) Charleston Post and Courier Wants Action […]

No Charges Filed Against Driver Who Killed Tampa Cyclist (TB Times) Second Phase of Fort Myers Beach Complete Street Finished (NBC 2) Church and City Reach Compromise Over New Orleans Parking Slab (NOLA.com) Union City, GA Mayor Calls for Light Rail in South Fulton (Marietta Daily Journal) Ridership Has Disappointed, But Orlando Sentinel Remains Behind […]

Fulton Turns to BRT to Build Needed Transit on the Cheap (AJC) Greenville, NC Wants to Turn Over Parking Spaces Faster (Public Radio East) New Bypass Will Open Up Wilmington to More Sprawl (Wilmington Biz) Can Brightline Turn a Profit When It Starts Running This Month? (Curbed) Florida Cuts Funding for Disabled Vets’ Transit (Santa […]

Unpaid Walking Tickets Could Cost You Your License in Jacksonville (ProPublica) Fewer Atlanta Workers Are Using Transit Despite Long Commutes (Saporta Report) Plan for Median and Bike Lanes Is the Talk of Mount Pleasant, SC (Post and Courier) Greensboro, NC Named Bike-Friendly Community (News & Record) NoVA’s Congestion Pricing Is Doing What It’s Supposed to […]