Today’s Headlines
Capital Bikeshare Explores Ways to Balance Out Bike Distribution, Seduces Alexandria (WaPo, TBD) USDOT Works to Improve Transportation Access to People With Disabilities (Fast Lane) You Can Either Have a Job or a House: Home Prices in Hot Job Markets Are Prohibitive (Yglesias) Key Senate Republican Jim Inhofe Predicts a Two-Year Bill, Splits With Boxer … Continued
By
Tanya Snyder
8:14 AM EDT on June 2, 2011
- Capital Bikeshare Explores Ways to Balance Out Bike Distribution, Seduces Alexandria (WaPo, TBD)
- USDOT Works to Improve Transportation Access to People With Disabilities (Fast Lane)
- You Can Either Have a Job or a House: Home Prices in Hot Job Markets Are Prohibitive (Yglesias)
- Key Senate Republican Jim Inhofe Predicts a Two-Year Bill, Splits With Boxer Over Bikes (Tulsa World)
- Boehner Wants a Debt Ceiling Deal Sooner Than Later (The Hill)
- LaHood Mediates Meeting on the Dulles Rail Station Controversy (WaPo)
- Bill to Crack Down on Truck Idling Goes to Colorado Governor For Signature (LandLine)
- USDOT, Lawmakers Get Tough on Bus Safety (USA Today)
- Obama Takes Credit For Auto Industry Comeback As Re-election Strategy (The Hill)
- Pay Landowners to Develop Land For Transportation, Or Should The Landowners Pay? (Infrastructurist)
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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