Today’s Headlines
Senator Cardin Wants Transportation Bill to Prioritize Road, Bridge Repairs (T4America blog) New Report: High Gas Prices, Not Low Fares Boost Transit Ridership (Infrastructurist) Scenes From CNU 19: Poticha, Blumenauer Tout Push for Livability (Transpo Nation) WSJ Blog Gives a Lot of Ink to Wendell Cox’s Claim That Smart Growth Caused the Housing Bubble FL … Continued
9:07 AM EDT on June 15, 2011
- Senator Cardin Wants Transportation Bill to Prioritize Road, Bridge Repairs (T4America blog)
- New Report: High Gas Prices, Not Low Fares Boost Transit Ridership (Infrastructurist)
- Scenes From CNU 19: Poticha, Blumenauer Tout Push for Livability (Transpo Nation)
- WSJ Blog Gives a Lot of Ink to Wendell Cox’s Claim That Smart Growth Caused the Housing Bubble
- FL Gov. Scott Dumps Growth Management for New Agency Promoting Development (Miami Herald)
- “National Dump the Pump Day” Reminds Commuters of Alternatives (Times Union, Car Connection)
- Volvo: Forget Google Cars, Software Puts Cars on “Road Train” (MSNBC)
- Hertz Adds Electric Bikes to Rental Fleet (EarthTechling)
- General Motors Invests in Zero-Emission Transit Buses (MLive)
- Are Sprawling, Unwalkable Cities Making Us Fat? (Good)
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