Today’s Headlines
FHWA Publishes State VMT and Highway Info, Showing Just How Much California Drives Transportation Committee Learns to Live Without Earmarks — But Doesn’t Like It (National Journal) Is the Mainstream Media Incapable of Doing Decent Coverage of Traffic Enforcement? (Streetsblog LA) Why Doesn’t Anyone Talk About the Costs of Transit Congestion? (Business Vancouver) After All … Continued
By
Tanya Snyder
8:46 AM EDT on August 27, 2013
- FHWA Publishes State VMT and Highway Info, Showing Just How Much California Drives
- Transportation Committee Learns to Live Without Earmarks — But Doesn’t Like It (National Journal)
- Is the Mainstream Media Incapable of Doing Decent Coverage of Traffic Enforcement? (Streetsblog LA)
- Why Doesn’t Anyone Talk About the Costs of Transit Congestion? (Business Vancouver)
- After All That Hand-Wringing, Ford Finally Invests in Bikes (EV World)
- Another Big Increase in Biking That Won’t Show Up on Official Data (Wash Cycle)
- New Research to Rub Salt in the Wound of the U.S.’s Inferior Bike Culture (Rutgers via Bike League)
- If the Hyperloop Is Just a Doomed Transit Fantasy, It’ll Be in Good Company (Wired)
- NYC Transit Hero Gene Russianoff: “A Fare Hike Is a Tax Hike” (NYT)
- Name Hurricanes After Climate Deniers? Sign Here. (Climate Name Change/350.org)
- La Paz, Bolivia, Employs Zebras to Help Pedestrians Cross the Street (Atlantic Cities)
- DC Survey Shows That Drivers, Cyclists and Straphangers All Want the Same Things (GGW)
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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