Today's Headlines
Today’s Headlines
By Tanya Snyder
- 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)
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