Today’s Headlines
- Procedural Wrestling Match Robs Sen. McConnell of His Plan to Foil Obama Jobs Bill (TPM)
- Obama, Again, Confuses "Functionally Obsolete" and "Structurally Deficient" (The Hill)
- LA Embraces Urban Street Design As Anti-Obesity Tactic (Atlantic Cities)
- New Jersey Town Becomes a Transit Village, Whether It Wants To Or Not (NYT)
- Chicago Struggles to Bring Transit to State of Good Repair (NYT)
- Suburbanist Joel Kotkin Tells Nashville to Give Up on the Dream of Light Rail (Tennessean)
- Five Cities Where Transit Riders Are Richer Than Drivers (Atlantic Cities)
- Peak Oil = When the Cheap Stuff Is Gone And We End Up Drilling in the Arctic (WaPo)
- Affordable Housing Advocates Fight to Keep Parking Minimums They Can Then Waive (CP&DR)
- Paris Leads the Way Toward the Future of Car-Sharing: The One Way Rental (Transport Politic)
- Texas Teens Get Drivers License Without Taking Driver Safety Class (BusinessWire)
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