Today's Headlines

Today’s Headlines

Now Is the Time to Fight, Transportation Advocates (Transport Politic) Rep. De Fazio Champions Safe Routes to School Just Before Party Line Vote to Defund (Shareable) GOP Transit Bill Gets Railed From All Sides (Washington Times, Hill) Just How Big Are Subsidies to Fossil-Fuel Companies? (Grist) Climate Change Will Make You Love Big Government (Grist) … Continued

By Kathryn Reid Moore

8:51 AM EST on February 6, 2012

Now Is the Time to Fight, Transportation Advocates (Transport Politic)
Rep. De Fazio Champions Safe Routes to School Just Before Party Line Vote to Defund (Shareable)
GOP Transit Bill Gets Railed From All Sides (Washington Times, Hill)
Just How Big Are Subsidies to Fossil-Fuel Companies? (Grist)
Climate Change Will Make You Love Big Government (Grist)
How Taxis Solve the “Last Mile” Challenge of Transit (Atlantic Cities)
In Post-Earmark Era, Small Cities Increase Federal Lobbying Budget to Save Projects (NYTimes)
Law Enforcement Among Those Opposing NH Bill to Ban Sobriety Checkpoints (UnionLeader)
Traffic Camera Law Split Among States, Confusing Motorists and Policymakers (USAToday)
Unions, Students Remind CA “We Want High-Speed Rail” (OC Register)
Michigan’s Limited Texting Ban Not Keeping Motorists Off Social Media, Out of Crashes (MLive)
Piscataquis, Maine Could Be the USA’s Newest, Truest Car-Free City (PlanetSave)
Thriving U.S. Rail Industry Means Jobs, Profits in Pittsburgh (Post-Gazette)

Kathryn Reid Moore

Today's Headlines

Streetsblog has migrated to a new comment system. New commenters can register directly in the comments section of any article. Returning commenters: your previous comments and display name have been preserved, but you'll need to reclaim your account by clicking "Forgot your password?" on the sign-in form, entering your email, and following the verification link to set a new password — this is required because passwords could not be carried over during the migration. For questions, contact tips@streetsblog.org.

More from Streetsblog USA

Safety

Driverless Cars Could Save Tens of Thousands of Lives. But We Must Treat Them Like Aviation — Not Like Cars

Commercial passenger aviation has nearly zero passenger deaths per year compared to about 40,000 roadway deaths. That's not a function of driving being inherently riskier — it is a function of what our leaders decide is "safe enough."