Today’s Headlines
Don’t Blame Environmental Reviews for Project Delays, Blame the Shutdown (Switchboard) Shutdown Already Impacting Local Transit Agencies (Times-News) AASHTO Prepares a Five-Minute Cliffs Notes Version of Recent EPW Hearing on Transpo Funding Raleigh Votes 70-30 for Property Tax Hike to Fund Transpo Projects (News & Observer) Georgia Bicycle Registration Bill Proposed, Withdrawn (News Channel 9, … Continued
By
Tanya Snyder
8:55 AM EDT on October 9, 2013
- Don’t Blame Environmental Reviews for Project Delays, Blame the Shutdown (Switchboard)
- Shutdown Already Impacting Local Transit Agencies (Times-News)
- AASHTO Prepares a Five-Minute Cliffs Notes Version of Recent EPW Hearing on Transpo Funding
- Raleigh Votes 70-30 for Property Tax Hike to Fund Transpo Projects (News & Observer)
- Georgia Bicycle Registration Bill Proposed, Withdrawn (News Channel 9, Patch)
- “You’re Going to Have Accidents”: Commish Says NYPD Helpless to Stop Traffic Deaths (Atlantic)
- With AB 417, California Throws Off Burdensome Bike Regulations (Cyclelicio.us)
- Study: 50 Percent of Freight Deliveries Could Be Made by Bike (Treehugger)
- A Western Woman’s Experience Riding Bikes in Iraqi Kurdistan (Urban Times)
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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