Today’s Headlines
An Eloquent Plea for Infrastructure Investment, But No Big Announcements, From Obama Last Week (TID) The Two Faces of Obama on Infrastructure (JoC) Republican T&I Leader Petri Wants Feds to Pay for Air Traffic Control at Private Air Show (The Hill) House Republican Hanna: Highway Trust Fund Is an Archaic Way to Fund Transpo (Trucking Info) Part … Continued
By
Tanya Snyder
8:49 AM EDT on July 29, 2013
- An Eloquent Plea for Infrastructure Investment, But No Big Announcements, From Obama Last Week (TID)
- The Two Faces of Obama on Infrastructure (JoC)
- Republican T&I Leader Petri Wants Feds to Pay for Air Traffic Control at Private Air Show (The Hill)
- House Republican Hanna: Highway Trust Fund Is an Archaic Way to Fund Transpo (Trucking Info)
- Part 5 of Sightline‘s Parking? Lots! Series: The Scourge of Vacant Parking Spots
- Yonah Freemark on CNN.com: Spain Crash Shouldn’t Make Us Doubt the Safety of High-Speed Rail
- 54 Solutions to Problems You May Not Have Even Known Washington, DC Had (City Paper)
- Put Transit Underground, Pay for It By Upzoning (RPUS)
- SF Weekly: Critical Mass Is a Shell of Its Former Self
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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