Today's Headlines

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Two-Thirds of Americans Don’t Want a 20-Cent Gas Tax Hike (The Hill, Governing, CNN, Politico) Three Ways This Round of TIGER Is Different (Transpo Issues Daily) WaPo Suggests Five Hypotheses to Explain Why More Young People Are Going Car-Free AAA: The Cost of Car Ownership Rises to $9,122 a Year (USA Today) Europe Sells Two … Continued

By Tanya Snyder

8:53 AM EDT on April 23, 2013

Two-Thirds of Americans Don’t Want a 20-Cent Gas Tax Hike (The Hill, Governing, CNN, Politico)
Three Ways This Round of TIGER Is Different (Transpo Issues Daily)
WaPo Suggests Five Hypotheses to Explain Why More Young People Are Going Car-Free
AAA: The Cost of Car Ownership Rises to $9,122 a Year (USA Today)
Europe Sells Two Bikes For Every Car (ePedalar)
Americans Bought As Many E-Bikes As E-Cars Last Year (Yale Environment 360)
40 Percent of On-the-Job Deaths Due to Transportation Crashes (Not Freak Explosions) (Bloomberg)
Toronto Discusses How to Handle Bixi’s Debt Problem (Star)
Fort Worth Bike-Share Launches (Star-Telegram)
Madison Gets Creative With Trike-Share — Cargo Bikes By the Hour (B-Cycle)
Americans Believe Global Warming Is Real, They Just Don’t Really Care (WaPo)
Texas Instruments, Peace Corps, World Bank Named Bike-Friendly Businesses (Bike League)
Walking Can Help Stave Off Dementia, If You Don’t Get Hit By a Car First (Atlantic Cities)

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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