Today’s Headlines
Lawmakers Shooting Down Every Viable Transportation Funding Option (Bloomberg) …But Secretary Foxx Is Still Optimistic About a Deal (The Hill) Obama’s Transportation Proposal Is Good — Let’s Raise the Gas Tax to Pay For It (Grist, Marketplace) Obama May Have Given Up on Infrastructure Bank, But Georgetown Public Policy Review Hasn’t Camp Proposal Raises the … Continued
By
Tanya Snyder
8:48 AM EST on February 28, 2014
- Lawmakers Shooting Down Every Viable Transportation Funding Option (Bloomberg)
- …But Secretary Foxx Is Still Optimistic About a Deal (The Hill)
- Obama’s Transportation Proposal Is Good — Let’s Raise the Gas Tax to Pay For It (Grist, Marketplace)
- Obama May Have Given Up on Infrastructure Bank, But Georgetown Public Policy Review Hasn’t
- Camp Proposal Raises the Gas Tax — But Only on Barge Operators (E&E)
- If Americans Are Driving Less, Let’s Stop Building New Roads (Looking at You, Seattle) (Atlantic Cities)
- When Will Bertha Get Moving Again on the Seattle Tunnel? Maybe June. Maybe October. (Crosscut)
- Ballot Initiative to Block High-Speed Rail Bonding in California Moves Forward (Biz Journal)
- Bixi’s Bankruptcy Slows Down Capital Bikeshare Expansion (WaPo)
- Now Every Bus in SF Is a Google Bus (SF Chronicle)
- Maybe Texas Would Have Been a Better Place to Launch HSR in the U.S. (RPUS)
- “Extreme Guerrilla Traffic Calming” (Cyclelicio.us)
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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