Today’s Headlines
- House Budget Locks in Sequestration, Senate Unveils Its Proposal Today (Transpo Issues Daily)
- This Could Be the Year For Major Tax Reform (and a Solution to the Transpo Fiscal Cliff?) (WaPo)
- What the Bike Summit Teaches Us About the State of the Movement (Bike Portland)
- How Bike Advocates Can Make MAP-21 Work For Them (Bike League)
- 24 Countries With Better Infrastructure Than the U.S. (Business Insider)
- O'Malley's Complicated Gas Tax Math in Maryland (Kent County News)
- Will Lighting a Train Station Like a Dance Club Make Transit Cool? (NYT)
- The Web of Interconnected Tradeoffs a Transit Engineer Must Make (Human Transit)
- Gender on the Roadways: More Women Driving Less (Transpo Nation)
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