Today’s Headlines
Will Florida End Up Having to Pay the Feds For Killing HSR? (Florida Times-Union) LaHood Lays Off Restrictions On Hands-Free Car Distractions, Targets Teens (Detroit News, WaPo) Bike Advocates Converge On Washington Amid Concern of Spending Cuts (WaPo) White House Eyes Oil Reserves As Prices Rise (JOC) Janette Sadik-Khan, Under Attack For Re-Distributing Valuable Rights-of-Way … Continued
By
Tanya Snyder
8:01 AM EST on March 8, 2011
- Will Florida End Up Having to Pay the Feds For Killing HSR? (Florida Times-Union)
- LaHood Lays Off Restrictions On Hands-Free Car Distractions, Targets Teens (Detroit News, WaPo)
- Bike Advocates Converge On Washington Amid Concern of Spending Cuts (WaPo)
- White House Eyes Oil Reserves As Prices Rise (JOC)
- Janette Sadik-Khan, Under Attack For Re-Distributing Valuable Rights-of-Way in NYC (TNR)
- Rising Gas Prices Are Increasing the Mass Transit Dividend: How Much Does Your City? (APTA)
- NY Republican Peter King Attacks His Party’s Cuts to Transit Security (The Hill)
- HOV Lanes Have Created a Unique “Slugging” Subculture in DC: Leaderless and Trusting (Miller-McCune)
- Total Miles Traveled Might Be Rising, But Per Capita Driving Has Plateaued (Switchboard)
- Pro-Car Toronto Mayor Devises New Transit Plan to Serve Half the People For the Same Cost (City TV)
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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