Thursday’s Headlines 9/10/20
- Is a Federal Greenway Act What the U.S. Needs to Recover from COVID-19?
- It’s a two-way street, said transportation officials about Walnut Street in Five Points
- What Transit Agencies Get Wrong About Equity, and How to Get it Right
7:23 AM GMT-0700 on September 10, 2020
Traffic Violence
- Electric Scooter Rider Killed In Hit-And-Run Identified As Christopher Patton (CBS4Denver)
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- Is a Federal Greenway Act What the U.S. Needs to Recover from COVID-19? (Streetsblog USA)
- National headlines at Streetsblog USA
Metro News
- It’s a two-way street, said transportation officials about Walnut Street in Five Points’ RiNo district (Denverite)
- Denver judge rules the city’s camping ban is constitutional (9News)
- RTD’s H, L lines out of service in downtown Denver for 2 weeks due to maintenance (Denver Post)
- To survive, RTD should abandon the northwest rail line and cut back low-ridership routes (Denver Post)
- Denver Air Quality Index: 8 a.m.: 32 (Good). Yesterday’s max: 30 (Good).
Centennial State & Beyond
- What Transit Agencies Get Wrong About Equity, and How to Get it Right (TransitCenter)
- Amtrak Chief Pleads for Nearly $5 Billion to Survive Pandemic (The New York Times)
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