Today’s Headlines
Bike/Ped Survives House’s “Dirty” Extension (Bike League) Who Will Blink on the Keystone Amendment? (Transpo Issues Daily) HSR Not an Effective Use of California’s Climate Change Mitigation Dollars (WaPo) Emanuel: No More Dickering on Infrastructure Trust (Chicago Sun-Times, HuffPo) Outrageously Wrong: County Supe Calls Transit Sales Tax “Gang Rape” (LAT) Combustion Emissions Kill 19,000 Prematurely … Continued
By
Tanya Snyder
8:44 AM EDT on April 20, 2012
- Bike/Ped Survives House’s “Dirty” Extension (Bike League)
- Who Will Blink on the Keystone Amendment? (Transpo Issues Daily)
- HSR Not an Effective Use of California’s Climate Change Mitigation Dollars (WaPo)
- Emanuel: No More Dickering on Infrastructure Trust (Chicago Sun-Times, HuffPo)
- Outrageously Wrong: County Supe Calls Transit Sales Tax “Gang Rape” (LAT)
- Combustion Emissions Kill 19,000 Prematurely in UK (Treehugger)
- Transit Worker Gets Punished For Good Deed: Giving Unused Tickets to Needy Kid (SacBee)
- The Catch-22 That Happens When Cities Choose Bikes (Treehugger)
- Yellowstone Sans Traffic: Bike-Only Season in America’s Most Unique Landscape (Billings Gazette)
- Dense New Jersey’s Anti-Density Zoning Laws Impact Education Equity (TNR)
- A Detailed Study of How Cycletracks Affected Bike and Car Traffic in D.C. (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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