Today’s Headlines
$170 Million Later, the Columbia River Crossing Is Dead (Bike Portland, Columbian) Washington State Legislature Also Skips Vote on 10.5-cent Gas Tax (AP) BART Normally Carries 400,000 Commuters a Day. Today It’ll Carry Zero. (CBS) Villaraigosa’s Legacy in LA: A City With Real Transpo Mojo (Governing) Even Ed Rendell Couldn’t Convince PA Dems to Pass a … Continued
By
Tanya Snyder
8:51 AM EDT on July 1, 2013
- $170 Million Later, the Columbia River Crossing Is Dead (Bike Portland, Columbian)
- Washington State Legislature Also Skips Vote on 10.5-cent Gas Tax (AP)
- BART Normally Carries 400,000 Commuters a Day. Today It’ll Carry Zero. (CBS)
- Villaraigosa’s Legacy in LA: A City With Real Transpo Mojo (Governing)
- Even Ed Rendell Couldn’t Convince PA Dems to Pass a Transit-Lite Transpo Bill (Patriot-News)
- Despite Chronically Broken Escalators and Weekend Track Work, DC Still Likes Metro (WaPo)
- California “Swap” Means Gas Tax Rises Today Because Sales Tax Dropped in 2010 (KVPR)
- NY Times Wonders if “Automobility” Is Dying Out
- Toyota Reads the Tea Leaves, Starts Making High-End Bikes (AP)
- Todd Litman Blows a Hole in Wendell Cox’s Tired Anti-Smart Growth Rhetoric (Planetizen)
- The Millennial Train Project Nears Funding Goal to Take Youth on Cross-Country Train Trip
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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