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Senate Extends Transit Benefit, Ball Now In House’s Court (Baltimore Sun) First Nationwide Count of Parking Spaces Tallies More Than 500 Million (Knoxville News Sentinel) PA Gov. Rendell Invests $45M in Pittsburgh Transit Rather Than Cut Service (Post Gazette) Will Anti-Rail Republicans in Florida Block Reallocated Midwestern Rail Money? (ABC) Is High Speed Rail the … Continued

By Tanya Snyder

9:03 AM EST on December 14, 2010

Senate Extends Transit Benefit, Ball Now In House’s Court (Baltimore Sun)
First Nationwide Count of Parking Spaces Tallies More Than 500 Million (Knoxville News Sentinel)
PA Gov. Rendell Invests $45M in Pittsburgh Transit Rather Than Cut Service (Post Gazette)
Will Anti-Rail Republicans in Florida Block Reallocated Midwestern Rail Money? (ABC)
Is High Speed Rail the Wave of the Future or a Waste of Stimulus Money? (National Journal)
Backlash Continues Against Wisc. Gov-Elect Walker’s Anti-Rail Platform (Journal Sentinel)
Gooooooooooal: High Speed Rail for Qatar World Cup (Railway Gazette)
A Bikeshare’s-Eye View of Winter: Where Do the Bikes Go? (The CityFix)
Which Came First, the Bike or the Bike Lane? A Video History of Dutch Cyclepaths (Treehugger)
Electric Vehicles Headed to a Showroom Near You (Alt Transport)

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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