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8:46 AM EST on November 18, 2011

    • Both Chambers Agree to Conference Report on 2012 Budget For Transpo and 4 Other Agencies (WaPo)
    • Boxer, House Dems Slam GOP Drill Bill; Even James Inhofe Knows It's a Loser (EPW, The Hill)
    • OpenMarket: Oil Drilling Is Great, But Wouldn't It Be Better Just to Kill Transit Funding?
    • Supercommittee is Floundering, And the Consequences of Failure Aren't Immediate Enough (WaPo)
    • FTA Advises Transit Agencies to Prepare For Climate Change, Flooding (Transpo Nation)
    • Feds Give $112 Million For Energy Efficiency Improvements to Transit (Reuters)
    • The Sharrow Grows Up (Grist)
    • How LEED Certification Disincentivizes Landlords to Build Bike Rooms (NYT)
    • Sure, Suburbanization Sounded Great When You Lived in 19th Century London Slums (NatGeo)
    • Hybrid Cars Are 20% More Likely to Hit a Pedestrian (Auto News)
    • Achieving Goals of Fuel Efficiency and Lower VMT Leads to Disaster (Economist)
    • A New Car? That'll Be Nearly Half Your Annual Family Income, Thanks. (Marketwatch)
    • "Scofflaw" Cyclists Are Compelled By Physics to Blow Through Stop Signs (TreeHugger)
The Streetsblog staff is in meetings today and will be on a light publishing schedule.
Tanya Snyder
Tanya became Streetsblog's Capitol Hill editor in September 2010 after covering Congress for Pacifica Radio’s 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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