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Today’s Headlines

9:04 AM EST on March 1, 2011

    • House Reaches Consensus on Two-Week Budget Extension; Obama Wants Four (Politico)
    • Saudi Arabia Picks Up Libya's Slack On Oil Production But Prices Keep Climbing (CAP, JOC)
    • Wisconsinites Who Voted for Gov. Scott Walker Say "Oops" (Swing State Project)
    • Northeastern Senators Ask LaHood to Put Rejected HSR Funds into the NEC (WaPo)
    • LaHood Rails Against Dashboard Distractions; Device Blocks Driver Cell Phone Signal (Infrastructurist)
    • 15,000 People, Riding Bikes Instead of Cars, Will Save the Local Economy $127,275,000 (Grist)
    • World Bank: U.S. Should Invest in Infrastructure (Bloomberg)
    • How To Increase the Bicycle Mode Share From One to Eight Percent In Your City (Planetizen)
    • 9/11 Memorial Set to Open, But NYC Has No Plan to Handle the Bus Traffic (NYT)
    • London is Updating Its Transit Ticketing in Time for Olympics (ThisBigCity)
    • Confessions of a Transit Consultant: How Political Motivations Affect Outcomes (Human Transit)
    • Chicago To Get Safer Bike Lanes (Yahoo!)
Tanya Snyder
Tanya became Streetsblog's Capitol Hill editor in September 2010 after covering Congress for Pacifica Radio’s 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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