Today’s Headlines
Privatizing Amtrak Is Part of Romney‘s Plan to Control Spending (Mitt Romney) Romney Leads in New Poll (CBS) Utah Lawmakers Want to Eliminate Federal Gas Tax, Leave It to the States (Standard-Examiner) Despite Congressional Efforts to Kill It, Chicago-to-Detroit Rail Goes Full Steam Ahead (Business Wire) Repeated SAFETEA-LU Extensions Could Downgrade GARVEE Bonds (Business Wire) Fareed Zakaria Pushes Obama to … Continued
By
Tanya Snyder
8:34 AM EDT on September 30, 2011
- Privatizing Amtrak Is Part of Romney‘s Plan to Control Spending (Mitt Romney)
- Romney Leads in New Poll (CBS)
- Utah Lawmakers Want to Eliminate Federal Gas Tax, Leave It to the States (Standard-Examiner)
- Despite Congressional Efforts to Kill It, Chicago-to-Detroit Rail Goes Full Steam Ahead (Business Wire)
- Repeated SAFETEA-LU Extensions Could Downgrade GARVEE Bonds (Business Wire)
- Fareed Zakaria Pushes Obama to Create Lots of Crappy, Low-Paying Infrastructure Jobs (WaPo)
- EPA Dedicates $1.5 Million to Helping 125 Communities With Smart Growth
- When You Drive Alone You Drive With Three-Quarters of the Country (Bike League, ACS)
- The Built Environment Has Made Us Sedentary — And Sick (World News)
- How to Redesign Transportation For a 7-Billion-Person Planet (Treehugger)
- Poll: Californians Ready to Kill High-Speed Rail (Sac Bee)
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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