Today’s Headlines
Mica Predicts No New Bill Till 2016 (National Journal) Raise the Gas Tax As Part of the Fiscal Cliff Deal (Switchboard) Green Means Go: More U.S. Cities Adopt Bicycle Traffic Signals (Daily Mail) Mayor Rahm’s “Let Them Drive Cars” Moment Highlights Necessity of Transit (Care2) In Order For Cities to Keep Subsidizing Rural Areas, They … Continued
By
Tanya Snyder
8:43 AM EST on December 4, 2012
- Mica Predicts No New Bill Till 2016 (National Journal)
- Raise the Gas Tax As Part of the Fiscal Cliff Deal (Switchboard)
- Green Means Go: More U.S. Cities Adopt Bicycle Traffic Signals (Daily Mail)
- Mayor Rahm’s “Let Them Drive Cars” Moment Highlights Necessity of Transit (Care2)
- In Order For Cities to Keep Subsidizing Rural Areas, They Need High Quality Transit (Keystone Politics)
- Jerry Brown Hopes Sovereign Wealth Funds Want to Take a Risk on California HSR (BusinessWeek)
- Parking Policy Is About Allocating Scarce Resources, Not Some Government War on Cars (WaPo, GGW)
- Tracking By Insurance Companies Helps People Drive Less (And Primes the Pump For a VMT) (Atlantic)
- You Take the Bus; I’ll Take a Personal Helicopter: A Case Against Sanity (Forbes)
- More Bicycling, Fewer Crashes (Chicago Now)
- Ten Steps Toward Walkability, A Look at Jeff Speck’s New Book (Switchboard)
- The Ten Smartest Cities in North America (Fast Company)
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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