Today’s Headlines
Obama Preparing to Push Congress on Transportation Bills (The Hill, Reuters) Progressives Call on Obama to ‘Go Big’ in Jobs Bill (HuffPo) Somebody Tell GOP Leader Eric Cantor: Bike-share is Transportation (TBD) The Reason PlanMaryland Angers Local Government Is Also Why It is Important (Infrastructurist) Some See Bike Lanes as Expressways to Gentrification (Shareable) NJ Trains … Continued
8:49 AM EDT on August 31, 2011
- Obama Preparing to Push Congress on Transportation Bills (The Hill, Reuters)
- Progressives Call on Obama to ‘Go Big’ in Jobs Bill (HuffPo)
- Somebody Tell GOP Leader Eric Cantor: Bike-share is Transportation (TBD)
- The Reason PlanMaryland Angers Local Government Is Also Why It is Important (Infrastructurist)
- Some See Bike Lanes as Expressways to Gentrification (Shareable)
- NJ Trains Back on Track As Floods Begin to Recede (Bloomberg)
- Ford Partners with Zipcar to Expand Carshare Across University Campuses (NYT)
- Arizona Joins States Cautiously Optimistic for Promised Federal Transportation Dollars (StatePress)
- Mayoral Candidate Wins Race for Fastest Way to Get Across San Francisco – on a Bicycle (SFGate)
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