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Today’s Headlines

8:33 AM EDT on July 26, 2011

    • Debt Ceiling Fight No Longer About Substance, Just Partisan Maneuvering (WaPo)
    • Would Transpo Funding Stop in Case of Government Default? (Transportation Issues Daily)
    • John Mica: Put the Trust Back in the Trust Fund, Leave Infrastructure Decisions to States (Roll Call)
    • This is What We Do With Scarce U.S. Transpo Money: Lose it to the Taliban (WaPo)
    • China Does Damage Control After 39 Die in Rail Crash (Reuters)
    • "It's Called a Cycle Track": Chicago Gets Its First Protected Bike Lane (Tribune)
    • Denver Managed to Avoid Atlanta's Transpo Fate. Can Atlanta Now Copy Denver? (AJC)
    • Funding Available for Tribal Transit (Sacramento Biz Journal)
    • The Demise of Borders and the Importance of "Third Places" in Cities (MyUrbanist)
    • Planned, Sustainable Greenfield Development: A Contradiction in Terms? (Curbed)
    • Milwaukee Commuter Rail Plans Go Nowhere (Journal Sentinel)
Tanya Snyder
Tanya became Streetsblog's Capitol Hill editor in September 2010 after covering Congress for Pacifica Radio’s 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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