Today’s Headlines
Pair of Lawmakers Suggest Capitalizing an Infrastructure Fund With Repatriated Earnings (The Hill) Will Boston’s New Data-Driven Bus Service Compete With or Complement MBTA? (Globe) Dos and Don’ts for Bike-Curious Planners (Strong Towns) Falling Densities and Swelling Cities, Animated (WaPo) Transit Expansion Could Exacerbate Suburban Sprawl in Zurich (Phys.org) Austin Could Be the Next Epicenter … Continued
By
Tanya Snyder
9:00 AM EDT on April 15, 2014
- Pair of Lawmakers Suggest Capitalizing an Infrastructure Fund With Repatriated Earnings (The Hill)
- Will Boston’s New Data-Driven Bus Service Compete With or Complement MBTA? (Globe)
- Dos and Don’ts for Bike-Curious Planners (Strong Towns)
- Falling Densities and Swelling Cities, Animated (WaPo)
- Transit Expansion Could Exacerbate Suburban Sprawl in Zurich (Phys.org)
- Austin Could Be the Next Epicenter of the Micro-Apartment Boom (Austin Post)
- A Future of Drones and Driverless Cars Raise Equity Questions for Cities (Fast Co.Exist)
- Judging Bike-Share: New York, Montreal, and Boston (Grist)
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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