Today’s Headlines
Study: Traffic Collisions Cost $299.5 Billion a Year, Leading Killer of Americans 5-34 (National Journal) Commuter Transit Tax Benefit Set to Expire This Year (TransNat) Detroit Buses Back in Service After Strike Over Safety for Drivers (Hill, Detroit News) CA HSR: To Build Big and Bold or Small and Less Costly? (Politico) Obama’s Vision for HSR … Continued
8:56 AM EST on November 8, 2011
- Study: Traffic Collisions Cost $299.5 Billion a Year, Leading Killer of Americans 5-34 (National Journal)
- Commuter Transit Tax Benefit Set to Expire This Year (TransNat)
- Detroit Buses Back in Service After Strike Over Safety for Drivers (Hill, Detroit News)
- CA HSR: To Build Big and Bold or Small and Less Costly? (Politico)
- Obama’s Vision for HSR Across America Continues to Stall (MSNBC)
- Op-Ed: Sprawl Is the Real Enemy of Rural Living (Baltimore Sun)
- Chicago Hopes to Boost Transit Use by Allowing Buses on Shoulders (Chicago Tribune)
- Los Angeles’s Disadvantaged Population Denied Transportation Options (NRDC)
- Amsterdam, Portland Show That Bikes and Light Rail Are Allies (GGW)
- Spinlister Company Aims to Bring Peer-to-Peer Bike Sharing (BikePortland)
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