Today’s Headlines

8:53 AM EDT on June 3, 2013

LaHood Tells Govs: "Congress Needs to Find $500 or $600 billion and Pass a 5-Year Bill" (Detroit News)
LaHood Promises $185M in Federal Funds For New York Gateway Project (Railway Gazette)
NHTSA Looks to Future of Self-Driving Cars, Seeks to Regulate It (LAT)
More Crumbling Bridges, This Time Over the Columbia Gorge (Boise Weekly)
Moscow, With New Bike-Share, Struggles to Get Cyclists Out in a City Still Unsafe for Cyclists (Rappler)
Aspen Bike-Share Opens This Week (ABC7)
Good Encourages Readers to Commit to Car-Free Days
How Toronto Came to Be Ruled By City-Hating, Right-Wing Suburbanites (Star)
UPS and FedEx Have Racked Up More Than $5.5 Million in Parking Tickets Since 2011 (WaPo)
West Texans Say They'd Ride the Bus If They Knew the Schedule, Saw More Ads (CBS7)
The Nation Digs Through Its Archives to Find the Last Golden Age of Bicycles
Cities With Less Driving Have More Potential for Social Interaction (Fast Company)

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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