Today’s Headlines
What Will a Government Shutdown Mean For Federal Transit Support (Transpo Issues Daily) After So Many Last-Minute Saves, Congress Actually Prepares to Go Over the Shutdown Cliff (WaPo) Toyota Exec Expects Car Sales to Tank Next Year (AP) Sen. Boxer Has a New Favorite Transpo Funding Scheme, Advocates Will Take It (The Hill) This Is … Continued
By
Tanya Snyder
8:48 AM EDT on September 30, 2013
- What Will a Government Shutdown Mean For Federal Transit Support (Transpo Issues Daily)
- After So Many Last-Minute Saves, Congress Actually Prepares to Go Over the Shutdown Cliff (WaPo)
- Toyota Exec Expects Car Sales to Tank Next Year (AP)
- Sen. Boxer Has a New Favorite Transpo Funding Scheme, Advocates Will Take It (The Hill)
- This Is What Trust Fund Insolvency Looks Like to Idaho (Statesman)
- With North Carolina Deal, Amtrak Has Now Reached PRIIA Agreements With 12 of 19 States (NCNN)
- TOD Denialism Alive and Well in Bay Area Suburbs (Marin News)
- If You’re Against Density, You’re For Sprawl (Vancouver Sun)
- How Commuting Habits Differ in DC’s Core, Inner Ring, and Outer Ring (WaPo)
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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