Today’s Headlines
LaHood, Chamber President Donohue Agree: Raise the Gas Tax (WAMU, CNN) Here Are (Just a Few) Things Transpo Experts Still Don’t Know About Commuting (National Journal) One Man Goes It Alone in Lawsuit Again “Unsafe” Georgia Road Widening (Telegraph) “Airpocalypse” Shuts Down an Entire Chinese City (NYT) And Beijing Considers Limiting Driving on Bad-Air Days … Continued
By
Tanya Snyder
8:55 AM EDT on October 22, 2013
- LaHood, Chamber President Donohue Agree: Raise the Gas Tax (WAMU, CNN)
- Here Are (Just a Few) Things Transpo Experts Still Don’t Know About Commuting (National Journal)
- One Man Goes It Alone in Lawsuit Again “Unsafe” Georgia Road Widening (Telegraph)
- “Airpocalypse” Shuts Down an Entire Chinese City (NYT)
- And Beijing Considers Limiting Driving on Bad-Air Days (NBC)
- Seattle Says Neighborhood Greenways Aren’t Just For Portland Anymore (GGW)
- DC Prepares for Urban/Suburban Conflict on New Transportation Plan (WaPo)
- Granddad of Vehicular Cycling “Debates” Car-Banners and Cycletrack-Builders (NYT)
- Are Boomers Really Moving Back to Cities? Kotkin Says No (Forbes), Layman Says Yes (RPUS)
- Why Have We Turned Unique Towns into “Scary” Sprawl? And How Do We Turn Them Back? (Governing)
- Heart-Warming! Aging Bike Mechanic With Alzheimer’s Opens Bike Shop in Hospital (China Post)
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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