Today's Headlines

Today’s Headlines

LaHood Predicts a Short-Term Stop Gap Instead of a New Bill September 30 (National Journal) Nate Silver Warns Democrats Could Lose the Senate This Year (538, Slate) Driver of Derailed Chicago Train Was “Extremely Tired” From Too Much Overtime (ABC) America’s First 32 High-Speed Rail Cars Will Be Built By Siemens and Cummins (DW) Raleigh … Continued

By Tanya Snyder

8:38 AM EDT on March 25, 2014

LaHood Predicts a Short-Term Stop Gap Instead of a New Bill September 30 (National Journal)
Nate Silver Warns Democrats Could Lose the Senate This Year (538, Slate)
Driver of Derailed Chicago Train Was “Extremely Tired” From Too Much Overtime (ABC)
America’s First 32 High-Speed Rail Cars Will Be Built By Siemens and Cummins (DW)
Raleigh Mayor Calls for Transit Connection to Durham, Chapel Hill (WRAL)
Toronto Rider Group Hands Out “Sardine” Awards for Overcrowded Transit (Sun)
Council on Foreign Relations: USA Needs an Infrastructure Advisory Office Like It Has In Other Countries
DC Moves to Require Indoor Bike Parking (Biz Journal)
Would Your City Do a Pedestrian Safety Sting Like This One in Alameda? (Cyclicio.us)
Would Bike-Share Work in St. Louis? (St. Louis Public Radio)

Tanya Snyder

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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