Today's Headlines

Today’s Headlines

New York Studies Possibility of Higher-Speed Rail Between NYC and Niagara Falls (AP) Gov. Rick Scott’s Election-Year Gift to Tampa Area: A $131m Elevated Expressway (Tampa Bay Times) Bixi’s Financial Straits Don’t Seem to Be Impacting U.S. Bike-Share (Gas2) No Snowjam During Atlanta’s Second Snowstorm, So Who Needs Rail? (Marietta Daily Journal) Peer-to-Peer Bike-Share Takes Off … Continued

By Tanya Snyder

8:48 AM EST on February 18, 2014

New York Studies Possibility of Higher-Speed Rail Between NYC and Niagara Falls (AP)
Gov. Rick Scott’s Election-Year Gift to Tampa Area: A $131m Elevated Expressway (Tampa Bay Times)
Bixi’s Financial Straits Don’t Seem to Be Impacting U.S. Bike-Share (Gas2)
No Snowjam During Atlanta’s Second Snowstorm, So Who Needs Rail? (Marietta Daily Journal)
Peer-to-Peer Bike-Share Takes Off in Texas (Silicon Hills)
Germ-proof Clothing Line Perpetuates Offensive Cliche That Public Transportation Is Gross (PopSop)
Strong Towns: Speed Limits Should Match Road Design
A Lesson From Jarrett Walker on Making Transit Useful (Salon)
Streetsblog Editors Aren’t the Only People Who Meet the Love of Their Life on Transit (Atlantic Cities, UPI)

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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