Today’s Headlines
Charlotte Mayor Anthony Foxx to Be Nominated Transportation Secretary This Week (HuffPo, TID) CBO: To Keep Transpo Solvent Past 2015, Cut Spending by 92% or Raise Gas Tax by 10 Cents (TID) 93 Percent of U.S. Transportation Still Relies on Fossil Fuels (Face the Facts USA) What If We Never Run Out of Oil? (The … Continued
By
Tanya Snyder
8:45 AM EDT on April 29, 2013
- Charlotte Mayor Anthony Foxx to Be Nominated Transportation Secretary This Week (HuffPo, TID)
- CBO: To Keep Transpo Solvent Past 2015, Cut Spending by 92% or Raise Gas Tax by 10 Cents (TID)
- 93 Percent of U.S. Transportation Still Relies on Fossil Fuels (Face the Facts USA)
- What If We Never Run Out of Oil? (The Atlantic)
- Sequestration-Related Air Travel Delays Provide Glimpse Into U.S. Attitude Toward Infrastructure (WaPo)
- TTI: Once Again, Even Voice-Operated Texting Is Dangerous While Driving
- Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer Breaks Collarbone in Bike Crash — Again (The Hill)
- Tips From Mr. Money Moustache: Live Close to Work. Ride a Bike. Retire at 30. (WaPo)
- To Learn How to Boost Transit Use, Survey People Who Don’t Ride (KRQE)
- “That’s a Good-Looking Train!” Twin Cities Get a Look at Their New Light Rail (Pi Press)
- Oregon Governor: No Light Rail, No Columbia River Crossing. No Kidding. (Columbian)
- Adult Bicycling Classes Boom as DC Bike Culture Becomes Peer Pressure (WaPo)
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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