Today’s Headlines
111 Congressional Dems and Reps “Tired of Waiting” For Transportation Bill (The Hill) Pressure Mounts on Congress to Extend Benefits For Transit, Not Just Cars (The Hill, T4A) USDOT Green-Lights Columbia River Crossing “Disaster” (Business Journal) Fed Agencies Focus on the Rural Aspect of Urbanism (NRDC) Hip, Intellectual Cache of Cities Rises As “Cities 2.0” Win … Continued
By
Tanya Snyder
8:25 AM EST on December 8, 2011
- 111 Congressional Dems and Reps “Tired of Waiting” For Transportation Bill (The Hill)
- Pressure Mounts on Congress to Extend Benefits For Transit, Not Just Cars (The Hill, T4A)
- USDOT Green-Lights Columbia River Crossing “Disaster” (Business Journal)
- Fed Agencies Focus on the Rural Aspect of Urbanism (NRDC)
- Hip, Intellectual Cache of Cities Rises As “Cities 2.0” Win TED Prize (Transpo Nation)
- MPOs in Rural States Fight For Their Lives (Laurel Outlook)
- SC Tries to Combat Alarming Spike in Ped Fatalities By Blaming the Victim (The State)
- Distracted Driving Campaign in Mississippi Hasn’t Reduced Teen Texting (Hattiesburg American)
- Rio de Janeiro Gets Serious About Bike-Share (SmartPlanet)
- It’s Simple: Spend More On Transit And More People Will Ride (Ford For Toronto)
- Could Self-Driving Cars Do More Than Transit To Reduce Single-Occupancy Vehicles? (GGW)
- Slate‘s Requiem For High-Speed Rail
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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