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Today’s Headlines

To Understand the Debt Crisis, Just Look At Our Inability to Raise the Gas Tax (Infrastructurist) In Remarks on S&P Downgrade, Obama Again Pushes For Infrastructure Bank (JOC) Canada Struggles With Its Own Infrastructure Maintenance Backlog After Tunnel Collapse (CNews) Hand-Drawn Infographic Shows How Bike Touring Benefits Rural Economies (Path Less Pedaled) What’s the Role … Continued

By Tanya Snyder

8:34 AM EDT on August 9, 2011

To Understand the Debt Crisis, Just Look At Our Inability to Raise the Gas Tax (Infrastructurist)
In Remarks on S&P Downgrade, Obama Again Pushes For Infrastructure Bank (JOC)
Canada Struggles With Its Own Infrastructure Maintenance Backlog After Tunnel Collapse (CNews)
Hand-Drawn Infographic Shows How Bike Touring Benefits Rural Economies (Path Less Pedaled)
What’s the Role of Labor in the Transportation Debate? (National Journal)
Cobb County Just Gets Less and Less Transit-Friendly (AP)
Bogota Built Bike Lanes When It Had No Bike Commuters — And Now It Has 5% Mode Share (Streetfilms)
Is Sprawl the Real Reason Behind the Israel/Palestine Conflict? (Yglesias)
Immigrants and Low-Income People Migrating to the Suburbs (TNR)
If Any City Is Going to Do Bike-Share Right, It’s Portland. Here’s How (BikePortland)

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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