Today’s Headlines
Findings of Government Study on Toyota Safety Issues Could Be Released Today (CNNMoney) Pentagon Should Pay For Traffic Headaches Caused by Base Realignment (AirForceTimes, WaPo) Goodbye, ARC Tunnel — Hello, Gateway Between NJ and NY (TheTransportPolitic) The Winter of Transit’s Discontent: Snow Puts Further Strain on Scarce Resources (Times Herald-Record) The Choice You Don’t Want … Continued
By
Tanya Snyder
8:41 AM EST on February 8, 2011
- Findings of Government Study on Toyota Safety Issues Could Be Released Today (CNNMoney)
- Pentagon Should Pay For Traffic Headaches Caused by Base Realignment (AirForceTimes, WaPo)
- Goodbye, ARC Tunnel — Hello, Gateway Between NJ and NY (TheTransportPolitic)
- The Winter of Transit’s Discontent: Snow Puts Further Strain on Scarce Resources (Times Herald-Record)
- The Choice You Don’t Want to Have to Make: Get Transpo Bill Done, Or Get It Right? (National Journal)
- New Study Says Obesity Is Linked to Education Status, Not Sprawl (Newswise)
- The Next Great Transpo Financing Mechanism: T-Shirt Sales (MyFoxBoston)
- Virginia’s Democratic Senate Green-Lights Governor’s Transpo Plan (WaPo)
- Bike-Sharing Isn’t Rocket Science — But It Is A Mathematical Engineering Problem (Cyclelicio.us)
- ATU Keeps Heat on Chicago Mayoral Candidates, Trying to Avoid Cutbacks (In These Times)
- After Losing at the Polls, a New Light Rail Proposal for Tampa (Tampa Bay Biz Journal)
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Tanya became Streetsblog's Capitol Hill editor in September 2010 after covering Congress for Pacifica Radios Washington bureau and for public radio stations around the country. She lives car-free in a transit-oriented and bike-friendly neighborhood of Washington, DC.
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