Today’s Headlines
New T4A Report Ranks Deficient Bridges by Metro Areas (Transportation for America) Maryland Mayors Want 15 Cent Increase in Gas Tax (Baltimore Sun) Vote Today on Republican Amendment Preventing Transpo Funding for ‘Beautification’ (Hill) Three Infrastructure Funding Ideas With Bipartisan Support (WaPo) Carmakers vs. People Who Ride Bikes, an ‘Existential Dilemma’? (Infrastructurist) U.S. Government Working … Continued
8:47 AM EDT on October 19, 2011
- New T4A Report Ranks Deficient Bridges by Metro Areas (Transportation for America)
- Maryland Mayors Want 15 Cent Increase in Gas Tax (Baltimore Sun)
- Vote Today on Republican Amendment Preventing Transpo Funding for ‘Beautification’ (Hill)
- Three Infrastructure Funding Ideas With Bipartisan Support (WaPo)
- Carmakers vs. People Who Ride Bikes, an ‘Existential Dilemma’? (Infrastructurist)
- U.S. Government Working to Boost Domestic Transit Manufacturing (DetroitNews)
- Virgina DOT Planning a ‘Smart Highway’ on I-66 (HuffPo)
- Could Cleaning the Air Clean Up Violent Crime? (Grist)
- San Francisco Gives Second Look to Free Transit Passes for Under-18s (Mercury)
- NRDC Supports a ‘Long-term, Transformative Transportation Bill’ (Switchboard)
- Looking Back at Urbanist Messaging in the Fifties, With Video (Atlantic)
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