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 … Continued
By
Tanya Snyder
8:51 AM EDT on March 11, 2013
- 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)
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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