Today’s Headlines
More on Obama’s Push for Infrastructure Investment (WaPo, The Hill, NYT) Will Transportation Anchor a Bipartisan Agenda in 2011? (Politico) New Jersey’s Gov. May Blink on Tunnel Funding Standoff (Bloomberg, NJ.com) Shipping by Rail, Not Trucks, Could Mean Big Savings for Farmers (AP) In 2009, Americans Cut Back on Transportation Spending (Transpo Nation, Good) Walkable … Continued
By
Tanya Snyder
7:49 AM EDT on October 12, 2010
- More on Obama’s Push for Infrastructure Investment (WaPo, The Hill, NYT)
- Will Transportation Anchor a Bipartisan Agenda in 2011? (Politico)
- New Jersey’s Gov. May Blink on Tunnel Funding Standoff (Bloomberg, NJ.com)
- Shipping by Rail, Not Trucks, Could Mean Big Savings for Farmers (AP)
- In 2009, Americans Cut Back on Transportation Spending (Transpo Nation, Good)
- Walkable Suburbs Thriving, While Car-Dependent Burbs Languish (WSJ)
- Good Year for Amtrak: Rail Beats Planes for Customers on the Northeast Corridor (Examiner)
- Federal Employees Encouraged to Telework, Especially as Jobs Move to Drivable Suburbs (WaPo)
- Truckers Say They’d End Up Paying an Extra $1,200 a Year Under Proposed New Tax (Land Line)
- Nearly 100,000 Cyclists and Peds Flood L.A. Streets for First CicLAvia, Including Mayor (Streetsblog LA)
- Car-Centric Houston Suburb Turns Its Thoughts to Pedestrians (KUHF)
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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