Today’s Headlines
The Infrastructure We’re Building Now Will Bring Us Over the Climate Tipping Point in 5 Years (NatGeo) Speeding Up the TIGER Timeline Makes LaHood a Grinch to HUD Employees (WaPo) Lessons Learned From Tuesday’s Ballot Initiatives: #1 – Build From Success (RPUS, Switchboard) Why Did the Seattle Car-Tab Vote Fail? Maybe It Wasn’t High Enough. (Seattle … Continued
By
Tanya Snyder
8:14 AM EST on November 11, 2011
- The Infrastructure We’re Building Now Will Bring Us Over the Climate Tipping Point in 5 Years (NatGeo)
- Speeding Up the TIGER Timeline Makes LaHood a Grinch to HUD Employees (WaPo)
- Lessons Learned From Tuesday’s Ballot Initiatives: #1 – Build From Success (RPUS, Switchboard)
- Why Did the Seattle Car-Tab Vote Fail? Maybe It Wasn’t High Enough. (Seattle Times)
- Cyclelicious Sets Out to Argue Against Mandatory Sidepath Rule But Mostly Hates On Sidepaths
- What Could Save CA HSR? An Obama Win in 2012 and More Traffic Jams. (SacBee)
- Judge: Bullet Train Has to Re-Route Around South Bay (SJ Mercury)
- NAACP, Enviro Council: A Shift From Roads to Transit Could Transform Detroit (Freep)
- Free Parking (Even For Energy-Efficient Cars) Isn’t Green (Yglesias)
- Another Engineering Failure (GGW)
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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