Today’s Headlines
- Photos, Video Show Devastation of Flooded NYC Subway Tunnels (Examiner)
- Sandy Exposes Need to Invest in Transit Maintenance (McClatchy)
- Why Roads, Not Transit, Are Getting Emergency Aid (Transpo Nation)
- Bicycles Become Essential Transportation During Natural Disasters (Carson Now, Good)
- Toledo-Area Counties to Decide Whether to Decede From Regional Transit (Toledo Blade)
- Electric Vehicles Lower Carbon Emissions, But Not as Much as City Living (Salon)
- "Save the Planet, Expand the Highway Network," Say DC Outer-Beltway Boosters (GGW)
- DC Zoning Commission Chairman: No One Bikes to the Grocery Store (City Paper)
- Best Practices For Parking Minimums -- For Bicycles (RPUS)
- Rail's Best Customer: Oil Producers (Reuters)
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