Today’s Headlines
More on Obama’s $302 Billion Transpo Funding Plan (The Hill, Next City, The Hill) Boxer Tells AASHTO to Forget About a Gas Tax Hike in an Election Year (The Hill) Sec. Foxx Announced Sixth TIGER Round, Worth $600M (The Trucker) Here’s the Tea Party Response to Obama’s Plan (KCSG) Members of Congress, Local Leaders Plea … Continued
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Tanya Snyder
8:44 AM EST on February 27, 2014
- More on Obama’s $302 Billion Transpo Funding Plan (The Hill, Next City, The Hill)
- Boxer Tells AASHTO to Forget About a Gas Tax Hike in an Election Year (The Hill)
- Sec. Foxx Announced Sixth TIGER Round, Worth $600M (The Trucker)
- Here’s the Tea Party Response to Obama’s Plan (KCSG)
- Members of Congress, Local Leaders Plea for Federal Investment (T4America)
- A Visual Reminder About How Bad the Transpo Funding Situation Really Is (Roll Call)
- Republican Dave Camp’s Tax Reform Proposal Has $126.5B for Transportation (The Hill)
- You Can Always Count on Biden to Love HSR, Even When No One Else Does (Capital Radio)
- Transit Ridership, on the Rise Nearly Everywhere, Falls 25% in Buffalo Due to Disrepair (Buffalo News)
- Why Drug Dealers Love On-Street Parking (Atlantic Cities)
- Fight Racism, Support Transit (Fast Co.Design)
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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