Today’s Headlines
House Committee to Hold Hearing on “Skyrocketing” Cost of CA HSR (Hill) NTSB Calls for Banning Driver Cell Phone Use (NY Times) Cell Phone Industry Reacts, Does Not Want to Restrict “Manual” Phone Use in Cars (Hill) Ray LaHood Kicks Off Nationwide Crackdown on Drunk Driving (FastLane) US Government Backs Detroit’s Regional Transit Plan (Detroit … Continued
8:55 AM EST on December 14, 2011
- House Committee to Hold Hearing on “Skyrocketing” Cost of CA HSR (Hill)
- NTSB Calls for Banning Driver Cell Phone Use (NY Times)
- Cell Phone Industry Reacts, Does Not Want to Restrict “Manual” Phone Use in Cars (Hill)
- Ray LaHood Kicks Off Nationwide Crackdown on Drunk Driving (FastLane)
- US Government Backs Detroit’s Regional Transit Plan (Detroit News)
- New Passenger Rail Service to Connect Chicago, Quad Cities, by 2014 (Examiner)
- Who Really Pays for Roads? (Buffalo Rising)
- What Ever Happened to San Francisco’s Performance-Based Parking? (GGW)
- One Pedestrian Advocate Celebrates Potholes (Grist)
- How Parking Spaces Define Cities – a Graphic Comparison (Old Urbanist)
- China Daily, China’s English Newspaper, Calls for National Bicycle Infrastructure
- Facebook Promotes Bicycle Commuting for Employees (Patch Palo Alto)
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