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Today’s Headlines

8:40 AM EST on November 16, 2010

    • DOT Will Redistribute Rejected High Speed Rail Funds (WaPo)
    • Reluctant Senate GOP Leader McConnell Agrees to Earmark Ban (The Hill)
    • Rahall Wants Top Dem Post on Transpo Committee to Help Coal Industry (WVNS)
    • Houstonians Do Their "Patriotic Duty," Vote Down Traffic Cameras (KUHF/Transpo Nation)
    • Five Out of Six Experts Say Yes to a Gas Tax Increase (National Journal)
    • Prospects For a Transportation Bill: the View From Behind the Wheel of a Truck (Trucking Info)
    • Jim Crow Lives on in Inequitable Transit Access in Texas (Star-Telegram)
    • Energy Secretary Steven Chu Rides His Bike to Work (WaPo)
    • For Detroit to be a Great City, the New Gov Needs to Jumpstart Transit (Michigan Live)
    • In Keeping with the Delaware Tradition, New Reps Will Commute to Congress by Train (WDEL)
    • Biking to Mecca: Doing the Hajj on Two Wheels -- or By Transit (Cyclelicious, AFP)
Tanya Snyder
Tanya became Streetsblog's Capitol Hill editor in September 2010 after covering Congress for Pacifica Radio’s 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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