Today’s Headlines
AAA Projected More Driving This Labor Day Weekend (The Hill) New FTA Guidance Incentivizes Affordable Housing Near Transit (Rooflines) Arlington, Texas, Loses Distinction of Biggest U.S. City Without Transit (Wired) Infographic: “Pushing a Ton of Metal to Move 200 Lbs. of Flesh is Insanely Inefficient” (Treehugger) How Bike-Share Can Close Cycling’s Gender Gap (Good) Come … Continued
By
Tanya Snyder
8:42 AM EDT on September 3, 2013
- AAA Projected More Driving This Labor Day Weekend (The Hill)
- New FTA Guidance Incentivizes Affordable Housing Near Transit (Rooflines)
- Arlington, Texas, Loses Distinction of Biggest U.S. City Without Transit (Wired)
- Infographic: “Pushing a Ton of Metal to Move 200 Lbs. of Flesh is Insanely Inefficient” (Treehugger)
- How Bike-Share Can Close Cycling’s Gender Gap (Good)
- Come for the Tune-Up, Stay for the Espresso and the Massage: Bike Shops as Community Centers (WSJ)
- Fewer Crashes With Green Protected Bike Lane in Long Beach (Press-Telegram)
- Beyond “Interested But Concerned”: Another Way to Categorize Cyclists (Forbes)
- Could Smog Push China Toward a Carbon Tax? (NYT)
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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