Today’s Headlines
NYT Chides Republicans For Blocking Infrastructure Investment Maybe the Auto Bailout Didn’t Win Obama the Election After All (WaPo) Shuster‘s “All-of-the-Above” Strategy For Transpo Funding (Patriot-News) Mica Insists on Light Rail Extension to LAX (KPCC) Michael Dukakis Recalls the Massachusetts Ban on Highway Building, Suggests an Encore (Globe) If Only CA’s Rail Plan Were Moving … Continued
By
Tanya Snyder
8:59 AM EST on December 10, 2012
- NYT Chides Republicans For Blocking Infrastructure Investment
- Maybe the Auto Bailout Didn’t Win Obama the Election After All (WaPo)
- Shuster‘s “All-of-the-Above” Strategy For Transpo Funding (Patriot-News)
- Mica Insists on Light Rail Extension to LAX (KPCC)
- Michael Dukakis Recalls the Massachusetts Ban on Highway Building, Suggests an Encore (Globe)
- If Only CA’s Rail Plan Were Moving Ahead as Smoothly as This Private One in Florida (Sun-Sentinel)
- Strib: Time For Minneapolis to Get With the Program, Accelerate Transit
- Bike Ridership Explodes in DC, But Most Cyclists Are Still Dudes (WTOP)
- Why the Transit Commuter Next to You Is Disproportionately Likely to Be Female (Transpo Nation)
- A Grad Student’s Plea For Value Capture to Fund Chicago Transit (Triple Pundit)
- Pennsylvania Transpo Plan Shouldn’t Try to Choose Between Highways and Transit (Times-Tribune)
- Welcome, Cyclists: Michigan Gives Generous Highway Space to Bikes (BikePortland)
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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