Today’s Headlines
Transpo Bill Includes Federal Oversight For Transit Safety (Examiner) Most Dem Conferees Wouldn’t Sign Off on Final Transportation Report (Politico) Heritage and Club for Growth Are Scoring Vote on Transportation Bill (The Hill) The Horrors of the Transportation Bill: Bike/Ped Edition (Bike Portland) You’d Think he Subway Underneath the Capitol Would Warm Pols to Transit … Continued
By
Tanya Snyder
9:17 AM EDT on June 29, 2012
- Transpo Bill Includes Federal Oversight For Transit Safety (Examiner)
- Most Dem Conferees Wouldn’t Sign Off on Final Transportation Report (Politico)
- Heritage and Club for Growth Are Scoring Vote on Transportation Bill (The Hill)
- The Horrors of the Transportation Bill: Bike/Ped Edition (Bike Portland)
- You’d Think he Subway Underneath the Capitol Would Warm Pols to Transit (Atlantic Cities)
- Congress Rejects Even Studying VMT Tax Because of a Bunch of Half-Truths (Road Pricing)
- Without Unanimous Consent, Senate Has to Wait For House Before Voting on Bill (The Hill)
- Conference Report a Field Goal, Not a Touchdown (Transportation Nation)
- High-Speed Rail Dream is Fading (Crosscut)
- Brief History of Suburbs and Sprawl, According to Taras Grescoe’s “Straphanger” (Steven Can Plan)
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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