Today’s Headlines
Cantor: Don’t Worry About Government Shutdown; Our Efforts to Do So Are Futile (WaPo) If Distracted Driving Is So Dangerous and So Widespread, Why Are Fatalities Falling? (Bike Portland) Could Demand for Oil Peak Before Supply? (WaPo) Opposition to UK’S HS2 Grows With Cost Projections. (Sound Familiar, California?) (NYT) Speed Cameras’ Windfall Show Just How Much … Continued
By
Tanya Snyder
8:51 AM EDT on August 12, 2013
- Cantor: Don’t Worry About Government Shutdown; Our Efforts to Do So Are Futile (WaPo)
- If Distracted Driving Is So Dangerous and So Widespread, Why Are Fatalities Falling? (Bike Portland)
- Could Demand for Oil Peak Before Supply? (WaPo)
- Opposition to UK’S HS2 Grows With Cost Projections. (Sound Familiar, California?) (NYT)
- Speed Cameras’ Windfall Show Just How Much People Were Speeding in Chicago (Systemic Failure)
- TSTC Re-Imagines New Jersey’s Route 35 Makeover With a Complete Streets Approach
- Seattle’s Taxi Drivers Are Freaking Out About New Car-Sharing Services (Crosscut)
- Most Cities Still Have No Idea How and Where Growth Happens (Atlantic Cities)
- Are We Just Not Ready for a Car Service That Uses Congestion Pricing? (Next City)
- Missed the #WomenBike Twitter Chat? Read It Here (Cyclelicio.us)
- Five Creative Innovations in Public Furniture (This Big City)
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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