Today’s Headlines
Washington Post: Don’t Coddle the Ethanol Industry; Impose a Carbon Tax Former DOT Secretaries Look to States and Cities to Solve the Transpo Funding Crisis (The Hill) Running Buses on a Highway Is Not BRT, and Is Not Smart Transit Planning (GGW) Cargo Train Carrying Honduran Migrants Derails, Killing At Least 5 (AP) Transit-Accessible Development … Continued
By
Tanya Snyder
8:44 AM EDT on August 26, 2013
- Washington Post: Don’t Coddle the Ethanol Industry; Impose a Carbon Tax
- Former DOT Secretaries Look to States and Cities to Solve the Transpo Funding Crisis (The Hill)
- Running Buses on a Highway Is Not BRT, and Is Not Smart Transit Planning (GGW)
- Cargo Train Carrying Honduran Migrants Derails, Killing At Least 5 (AP)
- Transit-Accessible Development Commands 35% Higher Rents in Northern Virginia (WaPo)
- Maponics Gets Into the Walkability Game — Plus Bikeability, Transit Access (Fast Co.Exist)
- Working From Home Cycles Back to Shared Office Space, For the Good of the City (Good)
- While Americans Barely Carpool, the Dutch Get Into Bicycle Hitchhiking (PopUpCity)
- Signs Point to Improved Transit Information in Apple Products (Treehugger)
- Dorothy Rabinowitz Would Love These Bike-Share Haters in Chicago (Streetsblog Chicago)
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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