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Congress Should Extend the Build America Bonds for Infrastructure, Says the Washington Post FTA Could Withhold Further Transit Funding Until NJ Pays Back ARC Money (WSJ) Can Los Angeles Become a Great Transit City? (NYT) Suburbs to Blame For Urban Heat Island Effect (Switchboard) GOP Plan to Block Omnibus Spending Bill Could Kill $2M in … Continued

By Tanya Snyder

8:59 AM EST on November 30, 2010

Congress Should Extend the Build America Bonds for Infrastructure, Says the Washington Post
FTA Could Withhold Further Transit Funding Until NJ Pays Back ARC Money (WSJ)
Can Los Angeles Become a Great Transit City? (NYT)
Suburbs to Blame For Urban Heat Island Effect (Switchboard)
GOP Plan to Block Omnibus Spending Bill Could Kill $2M in Republican Earmarks (The Hill)
The Vicious Cycle: DC Transit Fare Hikes Caused Revenues to Fall (WaPo)
A New Design for the Traffic Light Could Be the Next Intelligent Road Technology (Treehugger)
CO Republicans Look to Stop Transpo Projects and Bond Sale (Ventura County Star)
Rural WV Says Public Transportation Isn’t Just for Cityfolk (State Journal)
14 Questions About Your Community, or, Enviros Don’t Get Walkability (Switchboard)

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.

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