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 … Continued
By
Tanya Snyder
8:45 AM EST on November 6, 2012
- 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)
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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