Today’s Headlines
Norton Wants to Become Ranking Member of Highways and Transit Subcommittee (Transpo Issues) Vegas-California Rail Hits Setback in Loan Process (National Review, Las Vegas Review-Journal) D.C. Planning Office Backs Off on Ending Parking Minimums (GGW, WaPo) Minneapolis Activists Want to See Protected Bike Lanes (Twin Cities Daily Planet) Maryland Gets New Transpo Director (WaPo) Can Amtrak Get Better … Continued
By
Katie Pearce
9:00 AM EDT on July 15, 2013
- Norton Wants to Become Ranking Member of Highways and Transit Subcommittee (Transpo Issues)
- Vegas-California Rail Hits Setback in Loan Process (National Review, Las Vegas Review-Journal)
- D.C. Planning Office Backs Off on Ending Parking Minimums (GGW, WaPo)
- Minneapolis Activists Want to See Protected Bike Lanes (Twin Cities Daily Planet)
- Maryland Gets New Transpo Director (WaPo)
- Can Amtrak Get Better With Boarding? (Economist)
- Hartford Courant: Connecticut’s Getting the Picture with Transit-Oriented Development
- Vienna Goes Green with Trams (CityFix)
- Denmark Tests Out Ideas for Bike Parking (Co.Exist)
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