Today’s Headlines
Forbes Analyzes the Democrats’ Plan to Pay for Infrastructure By Cutting Corporate Taxes Virginia Hybrid Owners May Not Have to Help Pay for Roads After All (WaPo) Atlanta Mayor Kasim Reed on Making Smart Transpo Decisions With Scarce Resources (HuffPo) On Heels of Oil-Train Crashes, FRA Issues New Safety Regs (The Hill) Iowa Has Already … Continued
By
Tanya Snyder
8:44 AM EST on January 24, 2014
- Forbes Analyzes the Democrats’ Plan to Pay for Infrastructure By Cutting Corporate Taxes
- Virginia Hybrid Owners May Not Have to Help Pay for Roads After All (WaPo)
- Atlanta Mayor Kasim Reed on Making Smart Transpo Decisions With Scarce Resources (HuffPo)
- On Heels of Oil-Train Crashes, FRA Issues New Safety Regs (The Hill)
- Iowa Has Already Spent Next Year’s Federal Transportation Funds (Sioux City Journal)
- Officials Throw Cold Water on LRT to LAX Idea (LAT)
- Why DC’s Poorest, Biggest, Blackest Ward Has 0 of the City’s 72 Bike Lanes (City Paper, Wash Cycle)
- The Looming Explosion in 3rd-World Car Use Is Avoidable (Reuters)
- Driving Isn’t Fun Anymore (And Other Reasons Young People Will Keep Driving Less) (Treehugger)
- U.S. Court: Oil Drillers Can’t Just Lie About Environmental Impacts (Salon)
- The Case for Political Candidates Staying Mum on Transit (Torontoist)
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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