Today’s Headlines
DOT Nominee Foxx’s Transit Company Flubbed DOT Contracts… (Charlotte Observer) …But the GOP May Not Even Care (Politico) Shuster’s Dad and Brother Represent Transpo Industry — But “Don’t Lobby” Bill (Altoona Mirror) Retiring Finance Chair Max Baucus Is “Doubling Down” on Tax Reform (Christian Post) How Is a Growing, Urbanizing America Becoming Less Dense? (Reuters) … Continued
By
Tanya Snyder
8:52 AM EDT on May 6, 2013
- DOT Nominee Foxx’s Transit Company Flubbed DOT Contracts… (Charlotte Observer)
- …But the GOP May Not Even Care (Politico)
- Shuster’s Dad and Brother Represent Transpo Industry — But “Don’t Lobby” Bill (Altoona Mirror)
- Retiring Finance Chair Max Baucus Is “Doubling Down” on Tax Reform (Christian Post)
- How Is a Growing, Urbanizing America Becoming Less Dense? (Reuters)
- LA Expo Line Surpasses Ridership Estimates By Creating New Riders (Neon Tommy)
- SC Residents: We’ll Pay More If It Goes to Repairs, Not New Tourist Roads (Beaumont Enterprise)
- Texting While Driving Is a Gateway Drug — And a Very Common One (Nature World News)
- The Mathematics of Cities (Smithsonian)
- We Shouldn’t Expect Transit to Pay For Itself Out of the Farebox — We Should Expect More (NWI Times)
- An Investor’s Look at Sustainable Transport (Motley Fool)
- Big Data Is Redrawing Bus Routes in Africa By Tracking Cell Phone Users (MIT Tech Review)
- Let’s Get This Straight: Different Transit Forms Fit Different Contexts (WaPo/GGW)
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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