Today’s Headlines
House T&I Committee Provides Locations and Times for Rescheduled Field Hearings Senators Get Blackberry Apps Removed That Help Drunk Drivers Evade Police (Sen. Lautenberg) Rep. DeFazio Offers Bottle of Wine for a Word to Replace the Maligned “Livability” (Portland Mercury) Over 1,000 Private Firms Lining Up to Profit Off of HSR “Boondoggle” (Earth Techling) Poll: … Continued
By
Tanya Snyder
8:13 AM EDT on March 24, 2011
- House T&I Committee Provides Locations and Times for Rescheduled Field Hearings
- Senators Get Blackberry Apps Removed That Help Drunk Drivers Evade Police (Sen. Lautenberg)
- Rep. DeFazio Offers Bottle of Wine for a Word to Replace the Maligned “Livability” (Portland Mercury)
- Over 1,000 Private Firms Lining Up to Profit Off of HSR “Boondoggle” (Earth Techling)
- Poll: 79 Percent Would Choose High-Speed Train Over Plane (Travel Daily News)
- Bay Area Starts $50 Million Loan Fund for Affordable TOD Housing (SJ Mercury)
- Minnesota State House Raids Transportation Fund (Patch)
- CNBC to Air “Sprawling From Grace: The Consequences of Suburbanization” Documentary
- Urbanize Public Buildings First (Seattle Transit Blog)
- By “War on Cars” Do You Mean “Market Rate Pricing”? (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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