Today’s Headlines
Paul Ryan: “I Think the Sequester’s Going to Happen” (TPM) Anderson Cooper Goes For the Jugular: Vermont HSR Isn’t Fast Enough (CNN) It’s So Much Easier to Get Highways Funded Than Transit (New Urbanism Blog) The Chinese Press Clucks About Sorry State of U.S. Infrastructure (South China Morning Post) Gas Tax Should Be $1/Gallon (Not, … Continued
By
Tanya Snyder
8:48 AM EST on January 28, 2013
- Paul Ryan: “I Think the Sequester’s Going to Happen” (TPM)
- Anderson Cooper Goes For the Jugular: Vermont HSR Isn’t Fast Enough (CNN)
- It’s So Much Easier to Get Highways Funded Than Transit (New Urbanism Blog)
- The Chinese Press Clucks About Sorry State of U.S. Infrastructure (South China Morning Post)
- Gas Tax Should Be $1/Gallon (Not, as VA Gov. McDonnell Would Have It, $0) (Freakonomics)
- The Equity Argument Against Affordable Housing Near Transit (PiPress)
- A Menu of Car-Share Options (NYT)
- New Hampshire, Indiana, Wisconsin Mull Gas Tax Hikes (Telegraph, Gannett, HTR News)
- Meet the Opponents of the Only Good Part of the CRC (Columbian, Oregonian)
- “Not a War Against Cars, A Question of Physics”: Stop Trying to Accommodate Cars (RPUS)
- The Down Side of Urban Professionals Sending Their Kids to Public Schools (Next City)
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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