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Obama to Announce 2014 Budget Proposal This Week (NYT) White House Cuts Another $232M From Transportation and Housing For 2013 (Politico) USDOT Secretary Contender Anthony Foxx Rejects Mayoral Re-election Bid (Charlotte Post) Frank Lautenberg Might Retire Sooner Than Expected (Politico) T&I Committee Agenda Shapes Up (The Hill) Margaret Thatcher’s Public Transport Legacy (Next City) DC … Continued

By Tanya Snyder

8:55 AM EDT on April 9, 2013

Obama to Announce 2014 Budget Proposal This Week (NYT)
White House Cuts Another $232M From Transportation and Housing For 2013 (Politico)
USDOT Secretary Contender Anthony Foxx Rejects Mayoral Re-election Bid (Charlotte Post)
Frank Lautenberg Might Retire Sooner Than Expected (Politico)
T&I Committee Agenda Shapes Up (The Hill)
Margaret Thatcher’s Public Transport Legacy (Next City)
DC Metro’s Silver Line, Having Overcome Many Obstacles, Is 90% Done (WaPo)
NYC Citi Bike Finally Begins to Emerge (Streetsblog NYC 1, 2)
Salt Lake City Gets Bitten by the Bike-Share Bug (Fox13)
Bullet Trains Could Light Up Second-Tier Cities (Harvard Business Review)
Why Google Transit Will Never Be Enough for Small to Medium-Sized Systems (Human Transit)

Tanya Snyder

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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