Today's Headlines

Today’s Headlines

How Will Congress’s Belt-Tightening Affect Transportation Budgets? (National Journal) Ford to Hire Thousands of New Workers, Push Electric Cars (Star Tribune) Yonah Freemark: Florida High Speed Rail Should Go Forward, But in Limited Way (Transport Politic) Yglesias: Turn the Capitol Parking Lot Into a Dorm for Members of Congress Oversized Chicago Streets Slim Down With … Continued

By Tanya Snyder

8:43 AM EST on January 11, 2011

How Will Congress’s Belt-Tightening Affect Transportation Budgets? (National Journal)
Ford to Hire Thousands of New Workers, Push Electric Cars (Star Tribune)
Yonah Freemark: Florida High Speed Rail Should Go Forward, But in Limited Way (Transport Politic)
Yglesias: Turn the Capitol Parking Lot Into a Dorm for Members of Congress
Oversized Chicago Streets Slim Down With Road Diet In Hopes of Revitalizing Pedestrian Life (Tribune)
Arizona’s Other Crisis: City Governments Face the “Anti-Stimulus” of Budget Cuts (TNR)
Pay Up, Grandma: Illinois Lawmakers Limit Free Transit Rides for Seniors (Bloomberg)
Retail Activity on Walkable Commercial Strips Beats Suburban Commerce 4 to 1 (Infrastructurist)
Virginians List Transpo as Top Priority But Resist Gas Taxes and Tolls to Pay For It (Times Dispatch)
Experts Push for Walkable, Transit-Friendly Urban Planning in the Twin Cities (Star Trib)
DC Metro Trying to Get Its Act Together With New Governance Plan (WaPo)

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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