Today’s Headlines
LaHood Joins Axelrod’s Political Think Tank (The Hill) The World of the Self-Driving Car: Urban Parks or Suburban Sprawl? (NYT) How the Feds Used to Do Urban Revitalization: Tear Down Housing, Build a Parking Lot (WaPo) Meanwhile, in LA, They Tore Down a Parking Lot and Made a Park (Urban Times) Fortune Editor Foretells the … Continued
By
Tanya Snyder
8:55 AM EDT on July 9, 2013
- LaHood Joins Axelrod’s Political Think Tank (The Hill)
- The World of the Self-Driving Car: Urban Parks or Suburban Sprawl? (NYT)
- How the Feds Used to Do Urban Revitalization: Tear Down Housing, Build a Parking Lot (WaPo)
- Meanwhile, in LA, They Tore Down a Parking Lot and Made a Park (Urban Times)
- Fortune Editor Foretells the End of the Suburbs
- Is There a Right to Walkability? In India? (Atlantic Cities, Human Transit)
- Read the Fine Print: Bike Portland Finds $42 Million for Bike/Ped in New Legislation
- New Development Plan for DC’s Takoma Park Metro Is Way Better Than Virginia Stations (GGW, RPUS)
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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