Today's Headlines

Today’s Headlines

Rep. Blumenauer Introduces Bill to Raise Federal Gas Tax By 15 Cents a Gallon (The Hill) NTSB: Crashed Metro-North Train Was Going 82 Around a 30 MPH Curve (AP) NY Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand Asks for Federal Help on Train Safety (Newsday) Michigan Group: Stop Wiping Out Communities to Widen Highways No One Needs (mLive) DC … Continued

By Tanya Snyder

8:57 AM EST on December 3, 2013

Rep. Blumenauer Introduces Bill to Raise Federal Gas Tax By 15 Cents a Gallon (The Hill)
NTSB: Crashed Metro-North Train Was Going 82 Around a 30 MPH Curve (AP)
NY Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand Asks for Federal Help on Train Safety (Newsday)
Michigan Group: Stop Wiping Out Communities to Widen Highways No One Needs (mLive)
DC Metro Silver Line Delayed to Ensure Safety (The Hill)
How Will People Get to Tysons Metros, Without Parking or Walkable Access? (Bacon’s Rebellion)
Why Can’t Even Liberal, Transit-Rich Places Get It Together to Fund Transit? (Salon)
Putting to Rest Freight Rail’s Bragging Rights About Being Entirely Self-Funded (McClatchy)
Low-Cost Transit Upgrade: Add Route Information to Bus Stops (Star Tribune)
This Map Shows Household Vehicle Ownership By County and, Wow, Virginia (GGW)
Amazon’s Drone Delivery Scheme: A Last-Mile Solution (New Republic)
Why Don’t Mayors Become Presidents? (Atlantic Cities)

Tanya Snyder

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.

Today's Headlines

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