Today’s Headlines
Dems Defend High-Speed Rail Against Latest GOP Attack (The Hill) US Chamber of Commerce Calls House Transpo Bill “Unacceptable” (Daily Caller) “Carmageddon” Hysteria Reaches Fevered Pitch (Reason) Meanwhile, JetBlue Capitalizes on the Frenzy with $4 Flights (Reuters) NYC’s Fulton Street Transit Center Might Just Be Done Come 2014 (Transpo Nation) What’s the True Cost of … Continued
By
Adam Voiland
8:49 AM EDT on July 15, 2011
- Dems Defend High-Speed Rail Against Latest GOP Attack (The Hill)
- US Chamber of Commerce Calls House Transpo Bill “Unacceptable” (Daily Caller)
- “Carmageddon” Hysteria Reaches Fevered Pitch (Reason)
- Meanwhile, JetBlue Capitalizes on the Frenzy with $4 Flights (Reuters)
- NYC’s Fulton Street Transit Center Might Just Be Done Come 2014 (Transpo Nation)
- What’s the True Cost of Carbon Dioxide? (Scientific American)
- Studies Suggest Car Use Has Peaked (Infrastructurist)
- Velomobile: The Strangest Little “Car” You’ll Ever See (Inhabitat)
- Journalism Isn’t the Problem, Writers Like Brian McGrory Are (Globe)
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