Today’s Headlines
By
Tanya Snyder
8:07 AM EDT on March 29, 2011
- A $20 Billion Compromise Could Lead to Passage of the 2011 Budget, Six Months Late (Bloomberg)
- After a Long Winter of Transit Cuts, Could It Be Springtime in Atlanta? (AJC)
- Houston Transpo Council Prioritizes Automobiles Over Everything Else (Houston Chronicle)
- Distracted Driving: A “Vibrant Sector” (Bike Portland)
- T4America Releases State-by-State Report on Failing Bridges
- Another Reason Not to Count on Electric Cars to Save the Planet (AltTransport)
- Open Video Letter to Chicago: Why Is So Much of Our City’s Infrastructure Oriented Toward Cars? (WBEZ)
- Imagining the Next Generation of Fare Payment Systems (GGW)
- “You’d Better Learn to Walk”: A Portrait of A City Struggling With Transit Cuts (WTAE)
- Svelte Crash Test Dummies Need to Fatten Up to Accurately Foretell Dangers (Minyanville)
- Heritage: Reliance on Amtrak is Death Knell for High-Speed Rail (WSJ)
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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