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After 20 Years of Talk, Could the Infrastructure Bank Idea Finally Become Reality? (TNR) FHWA Releases List of Bicycle Facilities Included in the Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices HSR Designation Allows Amtrak to Improve Connectivity on Nation’s Densest Corridor (CivSource) LaTourette: Some Lawmakers Don’t Really Know What an Earmark Is, Let’s Revisit Ban (The Hill) … Continued

By Tanya Snyder

8:13 AM EDT on March 17, 2011

After 20 Years of Talk, Could the Infrastructure Bank Idea Finally Become Reality? (TNR)
FHWA Releases List of Bicycle Facilities Included in the Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices
HSR Designation Allows Amtrak to Improve Connectivity on Nation’s Densest Corridor (CivSource)
LaTourette: Some Lawmakers Don’t Really Know What an Earmark Is, Let’s Revisit Ban (The Hill)
Florida Gov. Scott Overestimated Job Creation Potential of Port-Dredging Project (Orlando Sentinel)
Can Tea Partiers Becomes Smart-Growth Urbanists? (NYT, Boston Globe)
How Bicycle Infrastructure Improved the Local Economy in Hattiesburg, Mississippi (Bike League)
Working in Your Pajamas Saves 10 Million Barrels of Oil a Year (Switchboard)
Japan’s High Density Made Its Population More Vulnerable to Natural Disaster (ShopFloor)
High-Speed Rail Rejection is a Slap in the Face of the Middle Class (Treehugger)

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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