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Today’s Headlines

Inhofe Just Couldn’t Out-Arm-Wrestle Boxer on TE; Reactions Are Mixed (Transpo Nation) More on the “We Provided This Path, You’d Darned Well Better Use It” Senate Provision (Bike League) Why Is Congress Letting Unemployment Stay High And Bridges Keep Deteriorating? (CAP) Does the Senate Vote Foretell Greater Cooperation Across Party Lines on Infrastructure? (WaPo) If They’d … Continued

By Tanya Snyder

8:36 AM EST on November 10, 2011

Inhofe Just Couldn’t Out-Arm-Wrestle Boxer on TE; Reactions Are Mixed (Transpo Nation)
More on the “We Provided This Path, You’d Darned Well Better Use It” Senate Provision (Bike League)
Why Is Congress Letting Unemployment Stay High And Bridges Keep Deteriorating? (CAP)
Does the Senate Vote Foretell Greater Cooperation Across Party Lines on Infrastructure? (WaPo)
If They’d Just Raise the Gas Tax, Congress Wouldn’t Have to Resort to Wild Goose Chases (WaPo)
Why Does It Cost So Much to Build Transit in Big U.S. Cities? (Atlantic Cities)
Seattle Voters Reaffirm Variable Toll Rates and Light Rail on I-90 Bridge (Seattle Times)
More on Romney’s History as a Smart-Growth Urbanist (TNR)
Austin Man Gets 10 Years in Prison For Years-Long Bike-Tire-Puncturing Rampage (Statesman)
Ottawa Silences Singing Bus Driver (CBC)
Which Traffic Technologies Keep Pedestrians Safe, And Which Put Them in Danger? (Atlantic Cities)

Tanya Snyder

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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