Today’s Headlines
Plain Dealer Talks Infrastructure With Obama and Romney Grist Sums Up The Candidates’ Positions on Energy White House Thinks Sequestered Budget Cuts Will Be Avoided (Trans Issues Daily) MAP-21’s Focus on Rail Does a Disservice to Bus-Oriented Systems (KCRG) How the Feds Promoted Sprawl to End the Depression (And Eventually Create Another One) (KCET) Bloomberg: Gas Tax … Continued
By
Tanya Snyder
8:44 AM EDT on October 1, 2012
- Plain Dealer Talks Infrastructure With Obama and Romney
- Grist Sums Up The Candidates’ Positions on Energy
- White House Thinks Sequestered Budget Cuts Will Be Avoided (Trans Issues Daily)
- MAP-21’s Focus on Rail Does a Disservice to Bus-Oriented Systems (KCRG)
- How the Feds Promoted Sprawl to End the Depression (And Eventually Create Another One) (KCET)
- Bloomberg: Gas Tax Is One of the 5 “Good Taxes” That Should Be Raised (And Hit With Sales Tax Too)
- Air Travel to Get Even Crappier (WaPo)
- “Pushing Helmets Really Kills Cycling and Bike-Sharing in Particular” (NYT)
- Thousands Celebrate 20th Anniversary of SF Critical Mass (SF Gate)
- Envy (And Humor) Over NYC’s Effort to Get Taxi Riders to Stop Dooring Cyclists (Grid Chicago, SNL)
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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