Today’s Headlines
- It's Election Day! Go Vote!
- Candidates Silent on Transportation Because They Still Refuse to Deal With Revenue (WaPo)
- Superstorm Shows Why We Can't Keep Passing Short-Term Infrastructure Bills (National Journal)
- How You Can Have Gas Rationing, Mile-Long Lines -- And Dropping Gas Prices (Businessweek)
- Workers at the Factory that Builds NJ Transit Cars Are on Strike (Bloomberg)
- Flooding, Pestilence: Sandy As Preview to the Global Warming Apocalypse (Switchboard)
- We're Out of Time: The Dire Climate Consequences to Oil Addiction (The Hill)
- Interest in Electric Cars Declining, Based on FoxNews Talking Points (Plug-In Cars, Treehugger)
- We All Need to Keep Our State DOTs This Accountable In the MAP-21 Era (Bike Portland)
- Funding or No Funding, Baltimore Pushes Forward With Red Line Design (Sun)
- Why Isn't Seattle's Bike Network Keeping Up With Other Cities? (Seattle Times)
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