Today’s Headlines
In Absence of Robust Funding, White House Renews Push For Infrastructure Bank (Transpo Nation) HSR Proponents Fear Proposed Restrictions Would Spell Doom For Rail in San Francisco (Examiner) Michael Dukakis: Raise the Gas Tax, Invest in Transportation (JOC) Trafficwise, There’s Not Much Difference Between Seattle’s Proposed Tunnel and an Earthquake (Slog) Bicycles Can Be Liberating, … Continued
By
Tanya Snyder
8:57 AM EDT on July 14, 2011
- In Absence of Robust Funding, White House Renews Push For Infrastructure Bank (Transpo Nation)
- HSR Proponents Fear Proposed Restrictions Would Spell Doom For Rail in San Francisco (Examiner)
- Michael Dukakis: Raise the Gas Tax, Invest in Transportation (JOC)
- Trafficwise, There’s Not Much Difference Between Seattle’s Proposed Tunnel and an Earthquake (Slog)
- Bicycles Can Be Liberating, Even For the Most Oppressed (Grist)
- DesertXpress Rail Between SoCal and Las Vegas Moves Forward (Sac Bee)
- Conflict of Interest: Don’t Let Private Firms Decide What Gets Built and Then Build It (Ped Observations)
- Light Rail Does Not Attract Crime (Journal of Urban Affairs)
- The Millenials Speak: They Want a Carbon Tax, Not a Gas Tax, and More Money for HSR (Freakonomics)
- Measure Gallons Per Mile, Not MPG (Maybe Minutes Per Mile, Too, Instead of MPH?) (Grist)
- Shown How Little Urbanism Means to Most in DC, Urbanists Must Broaden the Tent (GGW)
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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