Today’s Headlines
U.S. DOT Gives $59.3M to Clean Transit (Fast Lane) WSJ Outlines Options For Replacing the Gas Tax “Riding the Bus Is Like a War Zone”: How Sexual Harassment Turns Women Off to Transit (LAist) New Mexico DOT Confirms That MAP-21 Will Mean Less Bike/Ped Funding (KOB) Everyone Is Going Crazy for This Danish Bus Ad Study: … Continued
By
Tanya Snyder
8:38 AM EDT on September 17, 2012
- U.S. DOT Gives $59.3M to Clean Transit (Fast Lane)
- WSJ Outlines Options For Replacing the Gas Tax
- “Riding the Bus Is Like a War Zone”: How Sexual Harassment Turns Women Off to Transit (LAist)
- New Mexico DOT Confirms That MAP-21 Will Mean Less Bike/Ped Funding (KOB)
- Everyone Is Going Crazy for This Danish Bus Ad
- Study: 10 Percent Increase in Smart Growth –> 20 Percent Decrease in Emissions (Smart Planet)
- Philly: Twice as Many Bikes, Half as Many Crashes (WHYY)
- To Reduce Fuel Consumption, Increase Efficiency or Gas Taxes? (Planetizen, Christian Science Monitor)
- Cyclists Will Thank You If You Drive Like This (WaPo)
- Blogosphere Responds to Crazy-Ass Examiner Cover (GGW, RPUS)
- RelayRides: The AirBnb of Transportation (Gadling)
- Andres Duany Designs the Future (Town Talk)
- The Midwest Doesn’t Understand What Streets Are (Strong Towns)
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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