Recent Streetsblog SOUTHEAST posts about Today’s Headlines

I-85 Collapse Puts Atlanta in the International Spotlight — and Not in a Good Way (Curbed) Fulton County Gives Employees MARTA Discounts, Lets Them Telecommute (AJC) How Atlantans Are Coping With Their New Commutes (WABE) Atlanta’s Multi-Use Trails Are an Alternative to I-85 (Saporta Report) Transpo Group Warns Freeway Collapse Could Happen in NoVa (Fairfax News) […]

Will the I-85 Collapse Prompt a MARTA Expansion? (AJC) MARTA Ridership Up 25 Percent Since Thursday (WABE) Gwinnett County Officials Tout Multimodal Approach (Daily Post) Vox Explains How Atlanta’s Transpo System Got So Screwed Up Georgia Has Too Many Counties for Atlanta to Plan Regionally (New York) Florida Inspects Freeways After Atlanta Bridge Collapse (First Coast News) […]

Part of I-85 in Atlanta Catches Fire, Collapses; Pandemonium Ensues (AJC) On the Bright Side, Check Out These Dank Memes (Curbed) Cobb County, GA’s Answer to MARTA Goes From “No” to “Maybe” (AJC) Bradenton Herald Joins Chorus Against Anti-Brightline Bill Miami Considers “Vision Zero” Approach to Reducing Pedestrian Deaths (New Times) Memphis Among 200 Cities That Could Lose […]

Florida Has the Nation’s Second-Highest Pedestrian Death Rate (Tampa Bay Times) How Intown Atlanta Residents Fought a Freeway and Won (Creative Loafing) Atlanta Considers Cracking Down on Urban Dirt-Bikers and ATVs (WABE) The 15 Best Places to Walk in New Orleans (Curbed) Only 5 Percent of Braves Fans Expected to Walk, Bike or Take Transit […]

Florida Legislators’ Anti-Brightline Bill May Be Dead (TC Palm) Atlanta Dad: A Road Diet Could Have Saved My Daughter’s Life (Saporta Report) New Atlanta Stadium’s Lack of Transit Is a Boon for Uber (AJC) Aiken, SC Residents Are Happy With Their Transit Service (Standard) FDOT Makes Pedestrian Improvements on Tampa Street (WFTS) Orlando Mayor: Think Beyond SunRail’s Ridership […]

Tampa Mayor Tells FL House to Leave the Brightline Alone (Tampa Bay Times) Bill Could Cripple Effort to Bring Commuter Rail to Panhandle (Northwest Florida Daily News) Sunshine State News Writer Thinks FL Passenger Rail Safety Bills Really Are About Safety Sarasota Is Deadly for Cyclists and Pedestrians, and Planners Want to Know Why (Herald-Tribune) MARTA […]