Today’s Headlines
House Vote Shows Weakness of GOP’s Hand on Keystone (Trans Issues Daily) The Catch-22 of Surging Transit Ridership (WaPo) Pentagon Wants to Make Military Bases Less Sprawling, More Walkable (USA Today) Here Comes Schuster to Take Over T & I (Post-Gazette) Sen. Gillibrand Asks Amtrak to Allow Bikes on Board (Times-Union) A Setback for Maryland’s … Continued
By
Tanya Snyder
8:48 AM EDT on May 21, 2012
- House Vote Shows Weakness of GOP’s Hand on Keystone (Trans Issues Daily)
- The Catch-22 of Surging Transit Ridership (WaPo)
- Pentagon Wants to Make Military Bases Less Sprawling, More Walkable (USA Today)
- Here Comes Schuster to Take Over T & I (Post-Gazette)
- Sen. Gillibrand Asks Amtrak to Allow Bikes on Board (Times-Union)
- A Setback for Maryland’s Purple Line (WaPo)
- LA Learns to Love the Bike (NYT)
- Too Much Effort to Accommodate Cars Downtown Makes a City “Stop Being a City” (Phila. Inquirer)
- Annual Cost of Car Ownership: $8,220. Annual Cost of Bike Ownership: $308 (Forbes)
- Best Part of This Article on Texting: AAA Guy Calls Cars “a 4000-Pound Killing Device” (Cincinnati.com)
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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