Today’s Headlines
More Development in Walkable Urban Neighborhoods Benefits Everybody (GGW) Clinton Makes It Simple: Fuel Efficiency Saves You Money (The Hill) More About Chicago’s New Pedestrian Safety Plan (Tribune) … But Chicago’s Got Nothing on Florianópolis, Brazil’s Hilarious Ped Initiative (VIDEO) (Atlantic Cities) A Tax to Fund Transit Won’t Kill As Many Jobs As No Tax to … Continued
By
Tanya Snyder
8:41 AM EDT on September 7, 2012
- More Development in Walkable Urban Neighborhoods Benefits Everybody (GGW)
- Clinton Makes It Simple: Fuel Efficiency Saves You Money (The Hill)
- More About Chicago’s New Pedestrian Safety Plan (Tribune)
- … But Chicago’s Got Nothing on Florianópolis, Brazil’s Hilarious Ped Initiative (VIDEO) (Atlantic Cities)
- A Tax to Fund Transit Won’t Kill As Many Jobs As No Tax to Fund Transit (HuffPo)
- To End Congestion, Stop Driving Like an Idiot (Toronto Star, via Atlantic Cities)
- Would Driverless Cars Clear the Way For Better Bike Infrastructure? (Bacon’s Rebellion)
- Bitter Irony: Freight Rail Expansion Fueled By Expanded Oil Exploration (UPI)
- What Really Makes a City Resilient to Disasters? (Atlantic Cities)
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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