Today’s Headlines
Judge: Wisconsin Violated Civil Rights By Favoring Road-Building Over Transit (Journal Sentinel) LA Mayor Villaraigosa Wants to Continue Transit Tax Until 2069 (Transport Politic) Penn Designers Recommend HSR Tunnel Under Long Island Sound (Hartford Courant) Car-Saturated Mexico City Turns to Bike-Share (ZeeNews) Despite T-SPLOST Defeat, Transit Governance Reform Can Go Forward (Creative Loafing) Extremist Republican … Continued
By
Tanya Snyder
8:46 AM EDT on September 4, 2012
- Judge: Wisconsin Violated Civil Rights By Favoring Road-Building Over Transit (Journal Sentinel)
- LA Mayor Villaraigosa Wants to Continue Transit Tax Until 2069 (Transport Politic)
- Penn Designers Recommend HSR Tunnel Under Long Island Sound (Hartford Courant)
- Car-Saturated Mexico City Turns to Bike-Share (ZeeNews)
- Despite T-SPLOST Defeat, Transit Governance Reform Can Go Forward (Creative Loafing)
- Extremist Republican Transpo Platform Doesn’t Matter (TID)
- Facebook Spurns Urbanity In Self-Contained Bubble HQ (New Republic)
- If Bike-Share Can Succeed in Fairbanks, Alaska (Average Temp: 27F) It Can Succeed Anywhere (WJTV)
- BRT As a Band-Aid When a Suture Is Needed (Atlantic Cities)
- The Safer You Make the Roadway, the More Unsafely People Drive (Ped Observations)
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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