Today’s Headlines
Two BART Workers Killed Doing Maintenance Work on Day Two of Strike (Bloomberg) Argentina Deja-Vu Train Crashes at Site of Last Year’s Crash That Killed 52 (BBC) Oil Train Derails, Ignites in Western Canada (Toronto Sun, Montreal Gazette) Five Years After Voting For It, Californians Wish High-Speed Rail Would “Go Away” (AP) In Some Places, … Continued
By
Tanya Snyder
8:54 AM EDT on October 21, 2013
- Two BART Workers Killed Doing Maintenance Work on Day Two of Strike (Bloomberg)
- Argentina Deja-Vu Train Crashes at Site of Last Year’s Crash That Killed 52 (BBC)
- Oil Train Derails, Ignites in Western Canada (Toronto Sun, Montreal Gazette)
- Five Years After Voting For It, Californians Wish High-Speed Rail Would “Go Away” (AP)
- In Some Places, Transit Service the Last to Return to Normal After Shutdown (Daily Statesman)
- Illinois Chamber of Commerce CEO Warns of Coming Infrastructure Crisis (News-Gazette)
- Colorado Governor “RAMP”s Up Road Spending, With a Little For Transit (Prowers Journal)
- Will Gas Tax Paralysis Kill Pennsylvania’s Chances of Upgrading Its Transpo Network? (DelCo Times)
- Iowa Legislator Declares Iowa City-to-Chicago Passenger Rail Hopes “Dead” (Des Moines Register)
- Houston Mayor’s Executive Order on Complete Streets Doesn’t Cut It (Planetizen)
- Massachusetts Brownfields Law Needs to Be Renewed to Encourage Infill Development (Globe)
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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