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 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)
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