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Today’s Headlines

NTSB Chair: My 5-year-old Minivan Has Better Safety Features Than Most Large Buses (AP) Video: Obama Calls for Cutting Oil Imports By a Third (WaPo) Miami Herald Editorial: Aren’t Empty Suburban Homes a Sign That Sprawl Isn’t Working? Rules About Rail, Airline Unions Could Bring Down Aviation Bill (The Hill) Among the States Asking for … Continued

By Tanya Snyder

8:22 AM EDT on March 31, 2011

NTSB Chair: My 5-year-old Minivan Has Better Safety Features Than Most Large Buses (AP)
Video: Obama Calls for Cutting Oil Imports By a Third (WaPo)
Miami Herald Editorial: Aren’t Empty Suburban Homes a Sign That Sprawl Isn’t Working?
Rules About Rail, Airline Unions Could Bring Down Aviation Bill (The Hill)
Among the States Asking for Wisconsin’s Rejected Rail Funds Is… Wisconsin (GreenTechMedia)
Getting Greedy: California Now Wants All of Florida’s Rail Money (LAT)
Why the Resistance to Mass Transit? It’s Our Only Way Out of the Jam We’re In (Reuters)
Honolulu Rail Opponents Hire Top Environmental Lawyer (KHON)
Should Taxpayers Be Funding a Streetcar Line to Portland’s Wealthy Suburb? (Oregonian)
Speed Limits on the Autobahn (!) and Clean Car Zones in Europe’s Cities (Wired)

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.

Today's Headlines

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