Today's Headlines

Today’s Headlines

ULI Report: Disintegrating Infrastructure Will Build Public Support for a Gas Tax Hike (WaPo) LaHood: We’ll Pass a Transpo Bill This Year Because It Will Create Jobs (Businessweek) That Abandoned House Bringing Down Your Neighborhood Might Be Owned by HUD (WaPo) NE, UT Governors Face Pressure to Earmark Sales Tax Dollars for Highways (World Herald, … Continued

By Tanya Snyder

8:19 AM EDT on May 17, 2011

ULI Report: Disintegrating Infrastructure Will Build Public Support for a Gas Tax Hike (WaPo)
LaHood: We’ll Pass a Transpo Bill This Year Because It Will Create Jobs (Businessweek)
That Abandoned House Bringing Down Your Neighborhood Might Be Owned by HUD (WaPo)
NE, UT Governors Face Pressure to Earmark Sales Tax Dollars for Highways (World Herald, SLTribune)
High-Speed Rail in California: Just Executive-Branch Pork? (ABC News 10)
Hating on Amtrak Seems to Be Becoming a National Pasttime (LAT)
Despite Stunning Success, Bixi is Nearly Bankrupt (Montreal Gazette)
New Jersey Should Fix Roads and Bridges First, Not Expand Them (Daily Record)
Bike League Partners with AAA to Educate Motorists and Cyclists to Avoid Crashes
Minneapolis Considers Vanity Plates, Mini-Bonds to Close Funding Shortfall (Star Tribune)

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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