Today’s Headlines
Congress Goes Back and Forth About Transpo Funding, Leaves Town (Transpo Issues Daily) Remember When Infrastructure Investment Was Bipartisan? What Happened? (Transpo Nation) How John Mica Pulled Off the Impossible and Failed Miserably (DC Velocity) (*See corrections) MAP-21’s Silver Lining: Local Control Over Bike/Ped Funds (Politico) Walkable Urbanism in the Sterile Suburbs Is No Kind … Continued
By
Tanya Snyder
8:44 AM EDT on September 24, 2012
- Congress Goes Back and Forth About Transpo Funding, Leaves Town (Transpo Issues Daily)
- Remember When Infrastructure Investment Was Bipartisan? What Happened? (Transpo Nation)
- How John Mica Pulled Off the Impossible and Failed Miserably (DC Velocity) (*See corrections)
- MAP-21’s Silver Lining: Local Control Over Bike/Ped Funds (Politico)
- Walkable Urbanism in the Sterile Suburbs Is No Kind of Urbanism at All (Salon)
- High-Speed Rail Showdown: Orski vs. Schank (WSJ)
- An Ethical and Mathematical Plea to Save School Busing (Ann Arbor Chronicle)
- Architects Don’t Know Anything About Cities, Even When They Design Them (Guardian)
- If China Is the Epicenter of Bicycle Culture, Why Is Hong Kong So Far Behind? (News.com.au)
- More Cars Create Pressure for Indonesia to Build More Places for Them to Drive (Jakarta Globe)
- The Next 2.3 Billion People in the World Will Live in Cities — Here’s Where (Nature)
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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