Today’s Headlines
Blumenauer’s Gas Tax Proposal Is Probably DOA, But He Has Plans to Go Further (Transpo Issues Daily) Metro-North Engineer Unlikely to Face Criminal Prosecution for Crash that Killed Four? (USA Today) Two Senators Demand Cameras on Train Tracks (AP, NY1) NHTSA Announces New Plan for Safe Senior Driving Has Amtrak Abandoned Its Vision of 220-MPH Trains … Continued
By
Tanya Snyder
8:59 AM EST on December 9, 2013
- Blumenauer’s Gas Tax Proposal Is Probably DOA, But He Has Plans to Go Further (Transpo Issues Daily)
- Metro-North Engineer Unlikely to Face Criminal Prosecution for Crash that Killed Four? (USA Today)
- Two Senators Demand Cameras on Train Tracks (AP, NY1)
- NHTSA Announces New Plan for Safe Senior Driving
- Has Amtrak Abandoned Its Vision of 220-MPH Trains of the Northeast Corridor? (Inquirer)
- How to Design a City Where No One Can Relax (BBC)
- DART Creaks Back to Life After 3-Day Ice Storm Outage (Culture Map)
- How Stockton’s Green Building Law Could End Up Exacerbating Sprawl (RecordNet)
- Tampa Area, Which Rejected Transit Measure a Few Years Ago, Is Beginning to See the Light (TBO)
- LoHud: Amp Proponents in Nashville Are Falling Short at Selling Their Vision
- Cry Me a River: The Grim Suffering That Is Bike Commuting in Portland (Salon)
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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