Today’s Headlines
“Trains Make All That Possible”: Light Rail Transforms Cities, Guides Development (NPR) Forget Peak Oil. Have We Hit Peak Travel? (Miller-McCune) “Start Now, Figure Out How to Finish Later”: Obama’s High Speed Rail Strategy (Time) Shoupian Parking Principles, Market-Based Pricing Come to Seattle (Seattle Times) Dallas Desires Streetcar Grant Shelved by Fort Worth (Dallas Morning … Continued
By
Tanya Snyder
9:36 AM EST on January 3, 2011
- “Trains Make All That Possible”: Light Rail Transforms Cities, Guides Development (NPR)
- Forget Peak Oil. Have We Hit Peak Travel? (Miller-McCune)
- “Start Now, Figure Out How to Finish Later”: Obama’s High Speed Rail Strategy (Time)
- Shoupian Parking Principles, Market-Based Pricing Come to Seattle (Seattle Times)
- Dallas Desires Streetcar Grant Shelved by Fort Worth (Dallas Morning News)
- Despite Taking Other Bike-Friendly Measures, L.A. Still Doesn’t Like Bikes on Trails (LAT)
- Bad Transit Governance Makes Virginia Beach Wary of Extending Rail Line (Virginian-Pilot)
- Op-ed: To Reverse America’s Economic Decline, Look to the Cities (Boston Globe)
- Streetcar Brings Gentrification Fears to Lego City: A Parable (GGW)
- Maryland Struggles to Spare Wildlife in Road Building Plans (Baltimore Sun)
- 2010 in Urbanism: A Look Back from A to Z (Grist)
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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