Today’s Headlines
Senate Could Consider FAA Reauthorization This Week (Surface Transpo Is Next) (AviationNews) And The House Will Start Acting On FAA Next Week (T&I Committee) In Absence of Federal Action, States Are Beginning to Test VMT Fee Switch (Infrastructurist) Carpooling Went the Way of Hairspray and Stirrup Pants After the Eighties (NYT) Counterproductive Land Use Regulations … Continued
By
Tanya Snyder
8:41 AM EST on February 1, 2011
- Senate Could Consider FAA Reauthorization This Week (Surface Transpo Is Next) (AviationNews)
- And The House Will Start Acting On FAA Next Week (T&I Committee)
- In Absence of Federal Action, States Are Beginning to Test VMT Fee Switch (Infrastructurist)
- Carpooling Went the Way of Hairspray and Stirrup Pants After the Eighties (NYT)
- Counterproductive Land Use Regulations Are Causing Sprawl in Washington State (Sightline Daily)
- With Parking $1,000 a Spot, Can Dallas Transit Handle Super Bowl Fans? (Dallas Morning News)
- Obama Conflated Gray Infrastructure (Bridges and Rail) With Green (Telecom) at SOTU (Nat Journal)
- Much of the Country Urged to “Stay Off the Roads” During Winter Storm (KOCO)
- Is It Too Much for DC Metro to Ask for Some Cash When It Bails Out VA and MD Transit? (DCist)
- Historic Preservationists Feeling the Streetcar Love in DC (City Paper)
- Urban Planning Prof Says the Country Must Fund Transit, Rezone Cities (The Shoshin Project)
http://www.aviationnews.net/?do=headline&news_ID=187839
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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