Today’s Headlines
Unusually Harsh Winter Puts Extra Pressure on Scarce Funds for Pothole Filling (Forbes) Federal Funding Crisis Could Mean Colorado Doesn’t Get to Widen I-25 (Coloradoan) Teen Mom-Turned-Transit Guru: Maria Ayerdi-Kaplan Wills SF’s Transbay Center Into Existence (Examiner) Infighting Between DOT and MPO Could Cost Hawaii Millions (Honolulu Civil Beat) Suburbs Want Light Rail, Minneapolis Demurs … Continued
By
Tanya Snyder
8:44 AM EDT on March 31, 2014
- Unusually Harsh Winter Puts Extra Pressure on Scarce Funds for Pothole Filling (Forbes)
- Federal Funding Crisis Could Mean Colorado Doesn’t Get to Widen I-25 (Coloradoan)
- Teen Mom-Turned-Transit Guru: Maria Ayerdi-Kaplan Wills SF’s Transbay Center Into Existence (Examiner)
- Infighting Between DOT and MPO Could Cost Hawaii Millions (Honolulu Civil Beat)
- Suburbs Want Light Rail, Minneapolis Demurs (Strib)
- Amtrak Could Extend Service to Montreal (Recorder)
- As Seattle Goes to War with Uber, San Antonio Cracks Down on Lyft (Gov Tech)
- When Your Complete Streets Policy Is Accompanied By 70 Planned Road Widenings (Ottawa Citizen)
- How Urban Nonprofit Bike Shops Change the Face of Bicycling (Governing)
- Private British Company Making Inroads With France’s Fiercely National Rail Industry (Telegraph)
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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