Today’s Headlines
Maybe Dororthy Rabinowitz Was Right About the All-Powerful Bike Lobby (Salon) Commerce Sec. Penny Pritzker Touts U.S. Bicycle Industry (Bike Portland) American Millennials May Be Cool on Them But “Cars Are All the Rage Among Asian Plutocrats” (WaPo) Something to Think About When Considering the Decoupling of VMT and the Unemployment Rate (AP) Building Infrastructure … Continued
By
Tanya Snyder
8:47 AM EDT on September 9, 2013
- Maybe Dororthy Rabinowitz Was Right About the All-Powerful Bike Lobby (Salon)
- Commerce Sec. Penny Pritzker Touts U.S. Bicycle Industry (Bike Portland)
- American Millennials May Be Cool on Them But “Cars Are All the Rage Among Asian Plutocrats” (WaPo)
- Something to Think About When Considering the Decoupling of VMT and the Unemployment Rate (AP)
- Building Infrastructure Will Never Be This Cheap Again (Seattle Times)
- Amtrak Warming to Roll-On Bicycles (WNDU)
- Portland’s Urban Growth Boundary Weakens With Camas City Council Vote (Columbian)
- Colorado Considers 10-Year Sales Tax for Transportation (Denver Post)
- Reverse Sprawl and Private Transit for the Rich: Mapping San Francisco’s Corporate Shuttles (Wired)
- World’s 10 Most Sustainable Cities (C40)
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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