Today’s Headlines
Jim Oberstar Blames Crumbling Infrastructure (and Down Economy) on Political Partisanship (MinnPost) LaHood Defends Rail Security, Says Amtrak Already Has a List to Check “Peculiar” Names (HuffPo) GOP Is Getting Political Mileage Out of the Mileage Tax That Never Happened (The Hill) High Gas Prices = Less Sprawl + Safer Roads (Infrastructurist) High-Speed Rail Needs … Continued
By
Tanya Snyder
8:34 AM EDT on May 12, 2011
- Jim Oberstar Blames Crumbling Infrastructure (and Down Economy) on Political Partisanship (MinnPost)
- LaHood Defends Rail Security, Says Amtrak Already Has a List to Check “Peculiar” Names (HuffPo)
- GOP Is Getting Political Mileage Out of the Mileage Tax That Never Happened (The Hill)
- High Gas Prices = Less Sprawl + Safer Roads (Infrastructurist)
- High-Speed Rail Needs a Better Ad Campaign (Grist)
- Scandalously Low Gas Tax Makes U.S. More Vulnerable to Oil Price Shocks (Yglesias)
- Car Use Has Peaked Like Oil — Are We Breaking Our Auto Addiction? (Treehugger)
- CA Auditor Warns Management Problems Threaten HSR, Recommends Re-Route (NYT)
- Georgia Legalizes Clipless Pedals and Recumbent Bikes, Passes Three-Foot Law (WSAV)
- Cities Begin to Regulate Pedicabs (Alt Transport)
- Chicago Rolls Out Real-Time Transit Tracking (Sun-Times)
- Philadelphia Boasts Twice the Bicycle Mode Share of Other Similar Cities (Phila. Inquirer)
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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