Today’s Headlines
- Sustainable Transpo Advocates Pleased by Foxx Pick (The Hill)
- Foxx Could Be Friendly to Cincinnati Streetcar (Examiner)
- No, Foxx Isn't a Transportation Expert; Neither Were Half of the Last 10 Secretaries (TID)
- Obama: "LaHood May Be the Best Transportation Secretary the Nation’s Ever Had" (The Hill)
- LaHood, In Turn, Heaps Praise on His Successor (Fast Lane) and His Boss (TPM)
- Rendell and Oberstar, Passed Over For DOT Job, Have Sobering Words for Foxx (Politico, MinnPost)
- First Year of Obama's "Strong Cities, Strong Communities" Program Yields Modest Successes (Next City)
- Former GM Exec Suggests Raising Gas Taxes, People Freak Out (Forbes 1, 2)
- You're Paying For Your Neighbor's Noxious Automobile Habit (Planetizen)
- Case Studies in How Bicycling Boosts Business (Momentum)
- In Increasingly Livable Washington, Gas Stations Disappear (WaPo)
- The World's 20 Most Bike-Friendly Cities (Copenhagenize via Planetizen)
- E-Bikes: "An Increasingly Viable Option for Urban Mobility"(CleanTechnica)
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