Today’s Headlines
Amtrak’s 2014 To-Do List Includes Positive Train Control, NEC Updates (Railway Age) Houston Chronicle and Grist Throw Cold Water on Record Transit Numbers … But Utah Has Every Right to Celebrate Its Frontrunner Transit Status (AP) Bike League Responds to Questions About Need for Separate Women’s Summit Sen. Rubio Further Complicates Tax Reform Proposal, Which Was … Continued
By
Tanya Snyder
8:44 AM EDT on March 11, 2014
- Amtrak’s 2014 To-Do List Includes Positive Train Control, NEC Updates (Railway Age)
- Houston Chronicle and Grist Throw Cold Water on Record Transit Numbers
- … But Utah Has Every Right to Celebrate Its Frontrunner Transit Status (AP)
- Bike League Responds to Questions About Need for Separate Women’s Summit
- Sen. Rubio Further Complicates Tax Reform Proposal, Which Was Already Unlikely (The Hill)
- Rails-to-Trails Disappointed in Supreme Court Decision on Rail Right-of-Way
- As Tunnel-Boring Stalls, Cracks Widen in Seattle’s Alaskan Way Viaduct (Crosscut)
- Caltrans Finally Delivers On (Some) Ancient Promises Made When It Divided a Neighborhood (Next City)
- Unwanted New Georgia Road Could Bulldoze 1,000 Homes (WSBTV)
- Though Obama Hasn’t Gotten the Memo, Columbia River Crossing Is Really and Truly Dead (Railway Age)
- Human Transit and Streetsblog LA Probe the Dangers of Automated Cars
- London Proposes Bike Route System on “Quietways) (Atlantic Cities)
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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