Today’s Headlines

By Blake Aued
Oct 17, 2016

Just What Downtown Atlanta Needs: More Parking Decks (Creative Loafing)
Pensacola Has Some of the Deadliest Roads in the Country (News Journal)
$600 Million Hillsborough Transpo Plan Includes No Money for Transit (Tampa Bay Times)
Brookhaven, GA Study Says Monorail Is More of a Shelbyville Idea (Reporter Newspapers)
North Carolina Roads Still Snarled in Hurricane Matthew’s Aftermath (News and Observer)
Alexandria Launches Sustainable Transportation Website (Patch)
Nashville Transpo Plan Would Let Driverless Cars Use Bus Rapid Transit Lanes (Tennessean)
Baton Rouge Wants a New $1 Billion Bridge (The Advocate)

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Is Your City Committed to Vision Zero, or Just Paying Lip Service?

By Angie Schmitt | Dec 20, 2017

For mayors, declaring a commitment to safer streets is the easy part. Following through with meaningful policies to rapidly reduce traffic injuries and deaths is another matter.

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By Blake Aued | Dec 20, 2017

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) […]