Today’s Headlines
GAO: Business Plan for High-Speed Rail Is Reasonable (AP) LaHood Announces $100M Loan for Chicago Riverwalk (Streetsblog CHI, Sun-Times, Chicago Mag) Is Your State DOT Headquarters Walkable? (Mobilizing the Region) Media Matters Looks More at CNN Mistakes with High-Speed Rail Story A Conversation with Capital Bikeshare Director Eric Gilliland (Bikeshare.com) … As WashCycle Highlights Program’s Regional Explosion MAP-21 Funds Help Rural States With … Continued
By
Katie Pearce
9:11 AM EDT on March 29, 2013
- GAO: Business Plan for High-Speed Rail Is Reasonable (AP)
- LaHood Announces $100M Loan for Chicago Riverwalk (Streetsblog CHI, Sun-Times, Chicago Mag)
- Is Your State DOT Headquarters Walkable? (Mobilizing the Region)
- Media Matters Looks More at CNN Mistakes with High-Speed Rail Story
- A Conversation with Capital Bikeshare Director Eric Gilliland (Bikeshare.com)
- … As WashCycle Highlights Program’s Regional Explosion
- MAP-21 Funds Help Rural States With Transit (Argus Leader)
- MIT Urbanism Prof: Future of Suburbs Could Be “Intelligent Big Box” (Phys.org)
- Gathering/Hackathon Aims to Reinvent Baltimore Transit
- Who Should Head Transportation in Portland, OR? (Bike Portland)
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