Today’s Headlines
Congress Might Actually Pass a Budget! (WaPo) Bipartisan Lawmakers Launch Congressional Public-Private Partnerships Caucus (Transpo Issues Daily) Truckers Apprehensive About Blumenauer’s New VMT Bill (The Trucker) Blumenauer’s Plan to Raise the Gas Tax Is the Best and Least Popular Idea in Washington (Slate) If GM Is Now So Profitable, Why Did Taxpayers Lose $10.5 Billion on … Continued
By
Tanya Snyder
8:53 AM EST on December 10, 2013
- Congress Might Actually Pass a Budget! (WaPo)
- Bipartisan Lawmakers Launch Congressional Public-Private Partnerships Caucus (Transpo Issues Daily)
- Truckers Apprehensive About Blumenauer’s New VMT Bill (The Trucker)
- Blumenauer’s Plan to Raise the Gas Tax Is the Best and Least Popular Idea in Washington (Slate)
- If GM Is Now So Profitable, Why Did Taxpayers Lose $10.5 Billion on the Bailout? (The Hill)
- The First Transit Super Bowl? (NJ.com, Fox)
- California HSR Has Suffered Setbacks, Yes. But Death Throes? Not Quite. (Streetsblog LA)
- California’ Riverside County Get $75 Million Federal Grant for New Commuter Line (SF Gate)
- SF Protestors Object to Two-Tiered Transpo System: Googly and Non-Googly (Salon)
- Eugene Students’ Buffered Bike Lane Idea Could Become Reality (Bike Portland)
- Do All Transit Agencies Have Holiday Gift Swag As Cool As Toronto’s? (BlogTO)
- Simple Suburban Retrofits: Before and After Photos (Switchboard)
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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