Today's Headlines

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 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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