Today’s Headlines
Rep. Bill Shuster, “Prince of Asphalt,” Gets Challenged From the Right (Roll Call) San Francisco Bike-Share Off to a Good Start (Examiner) — or Is It? (Streetsblog SF) Another Great Quarter For Transit Ridership (APTA) Turns Out There Really Are a Lot of Lexuses in Those HOT Lanes (Marketplace) California Cyclists Soon at Lower Risk … Continued
By
Tanya Snyder
8:55 AM EDT on September 24, 2013
- Rep. Bill Shuster, “Prince of Asphalt,” Gets Challenged From the Right (Roll Call)
- San Francisco Bike-Share Off to a Good Start (Examiner) — or Is It? (Streetsblog SF)
- Another Great Quarter For Transit Ridership (APTA)
- Turns Out There Really Are a Lot of Lexuses in Those HOT Lanes (Marketplace)
- California Cyclists Soon at Lower Risk of Getting Jerry-Browned, If We Can Still Call It That (KPCC)
- Pennsylvania State House Leader Plans Vote on Transpo Bill He Personally Opposes (AP, CBS)
- Two Cyclists Killed in Chapel Hill. Can New Bike Plan Make the City Safer? (Daily Tar Heel)
- Could Paying People Not to Drive Relieve Congestion? (Eno)
- NPR‘s Science Friday Learns How to Retrofit Car-Centric Sprawl for Transit
- Taxing Carbon Is Like Taxing Diamonds: It Primarily Affects the 1 Percent (HuffPo)
- Street Designs to Keep Pedestrians Safe (Good)
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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