Today’s Headlines
Budget Deal Includes $15M for Rail Safety (Newsday) Existing Technology Onboard the Metro-North Train Could Have Prevented Crash (AP) Unanswered Questions Still Haunt Metro-North (Shelton Herald) CA High-Speed Rail Should Start Over With Shorter, More Efficient Route (LAT) What’s Next For Oklahoma’s Transit? (Tulsa World) What Do 40 Wasted Sandwiches Teach Us About Parking? (Grist) … Continued
By
Tanya Snyder
8:58 AM EST on December 16, 2013
- Budget Deal Includes $15M for Rail Safety (Newsday)
- Existing Technology Onboard the Metro-North Train Could Have Prevented Crash (AP)
- Unanswered Questions Still Haunt Metro-North (Shelton Herald)
- CA High-Speed Rail Should Start Over With Shorter, More Efficient Route (LAT)
- What’s Next For Oklahoma’s Transit? (Tulsa World)
- What Do 40 Wasted Sandwiches Teach Us About Parking? (Grist)
- How the Country’s Most Walkable Cities Got Their People Moving (Governing)
- Houston Chronicle: Widening Roads Isn’t the Only Way to Improve Them
- The Next Frontier in Bike Parking (Road.cc)
- This Is What It Looks Like When “Car Mania” Hits Emerging Markets (Hurriyet News)
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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