Today’s Headlines
WaPo‘s Dr. Gridlock Urges Caution on Plan to Dismantle DC’s DOT Detroit Is Raising Parking Ticket Fines for the Wrong Reasons (Freep) The Case Against Funding Roads With Sales Taxes (Columbia Daily Tribune) Newsday Editorializes About the Need for Congress to Approve New Revenue for Transpo New VA Governor McAuliffe Re-Thinking McDonnell’s Transpo Projects (Times Dispatch) … Continued
By
Tanya Snyder
8:53 AM EDT on April 14, 2014
- WaPo‘s Dr. Gridlock Urges Caution on Plan to Dismantle DC’s DOT
- Detroit Is Raising Parking Ticket Fines for the Wrong Reasons (Freep)
- The Case Against Funding Roads With Sales Taxes (Columbia Daily Tribune)
- Newsday Editorializes About the Need for Congress to Approve New Revenue for Transpo
- New VA Governor McAuliffe Re-Thinking McDonnell’s Transpo Projects (Times Dispatch)
- Topeka Offers a Reminder That Bike Infrastructure Brings Riders and Business (Capital-Journal)
- City Living Just For Single People? Tell That to These 3-Kid Families in Manhattan (NYT)
- A People’s History of the McMansion (Salon)
- Light Rail Won’t Help Your City If Driving Is Still Too Cheap (Atlantic Cities)
- John Massengale’s New Book Explains How to Tell if a Road Was Built for Walking (Salon)
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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