Today's Headlines

Today’s Headlines

Former Treasury Sec. Summers: U.S. Must Invest in Infrastructure to Revive Economy (WaPo) Obama Food Desert Initiative Will Help Corner Markets, Not Just Supermarkets (Grist) Chorus Grows for Performance-Based Transportation Funding (National Journal) Bus Safety Administration Wants to Raise the Bar on Intercity Buses (Transpo Nation) The Problem With TTI’s Urban “Mobility” Report (Human Transit) … Continued

By Tanya Snyder

8:49 AM EDT on June 14, 2011

Former Treasury Sec. Summers: U.S. Must Invest in Infrastructure to Revive Economy (WaPo)
Obama Food Desert Initiative Will Help Corner Markets, Not Just Supermarkets (Grist)
Chorus Grows for Performance-Based Transportation Funding (National Journal)
Bus Safety Administration Wants to Raise the Bar on Intercity Buses (Transpo Nation)
The Problem With TTI’s Urban “Mobility” Report (Human Transit)
Just Because a City Isn’t Growing Doesn’t Mean It’s Dying (Infrastructurist)
Gabe Klein Wants to Bring Transit Tracking Monitors to Chicago Bus Stops (Sun-Times)
In Indianapolis, An Announcement About a New Parking Garage Sparks Push For Transit (Indystar)
The One County to Reject a Sales Tax Initiative This Year Has to Make Painful Cuts to Transit (KOMO)
NJ Legislators Urge Christie Not to Cut Transit Security Funds (MyCentralJersey.com)
Virginia’s Refusal to Ask for Rail Money Was Politically Motivated (WaPo)

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.

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