Today’s Headlines
Rep. Blumenauer Proposes Taking Oregon’s VMT Pilot National (Oregonian) Renewable Fuels Standard Could Get a Challenge (The Hill) CMAQ Will Pick Up 80% of the (Tiny) Cost of Chicago’s 645-Mile Bike Lane Network (WBEZ, Sun-Times) Vermont Comes Up $250M Short of Covering Maintenance Needs Alone (VT Digger) Wyoming’s in Trouble Too, And the Laramie Boomerang Thinks They Need to … Continued
By
Tanya Snyder
8:48 AM EST on December 17, 2012
- Rep. Blumenauer Proposes Taking Oregon’s VMT Pilot National (Oregonian)
- Renewable Fuels Standard Could Get a Challenge (The Hill)
- CMAQ Will Pick Up 80% of the (Tiny) Cost of Chicago’s 645-Mile Bike Lane Network (WBEZ, Sun-Times)
- Vermont Comes Up $250M Short of Covering Maintenance Needs Alone (VT Digger)
- Wyoming’s in Trouble Too, And the Laramie Boomerang Thinks They Need to Raise the Gas Tax
- Black Boxes on Buses May Be Listening to Your Conversations (IEEE Spectrum)
- When Bike/Ped Fatalities Go Up, So Should Federal Investment in Bike/Ped Safety (TSTC)
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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