Today’s Headlines
Most Transportation Employees Keep Working In Spite of Furloughs (National Journal) It’s Rideshare Week, So Stop Commuting Alone in Your Car Watch It Live: “City Lab 2013: Urban Solutions to Global Problems” (Atlantic Cities) Raising Fuel Taxes and Cutting Costs Is Not Enough to Save Highway Trust Fund (Transpo ID) PA Rep. Bill Shuster in … Continued
By
Katie Pearce
9:07 AM EDT on October 8, 2013
- Most Transportation Employees Keep Working In Spite of Furloughs (National Journal)
- It’s Rideshare Week, So Stop Commuting Alone in Your Car
- Watch It Live: “City Lab 2013: Urban Solutions to Global Problems” (Atlantic Cities)
- Raising Fuel Taxes and Cutting Costs Is Not Enough to Save Highway Trust Fund (Transpo ID)
- PA Rep. Bill Shuster in Strong Shape for Primary (Politics PA)
- RIP: The Bill to Restrict Cycling in Georgia (Gainesville Times)
- Improving Amtrak’s Hoosier Line Predicted to Boost Ridership (IBJ)
- Can Bike-Share Offer an Alternative to Streetcars? (Atlantic Cities)
- Minneapolis Light-Rail Planners Clear Up Some Confusion (MPR News)
- New Jersey Towns Embrace Cycling (NJ Spotlight)
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