Today’s Headlines
CBO: Obama’s Budget Would Leave Highway Trust Fund With Shortfall (The Hill) D.C. Mayor Pushes Back Long-Awaited Zoning Overhaul (GGW) Shuster Outraises Opponents Several Times Over (Politics PA) CheapAir.com Adds Amtrak Booking (USA Today) $360M Available for California Biking/Pedestrian Projects (KTVN) No Charges for Driver Who Killed NRDC’s Joy Covey on Bike (Almanac News) Nashville’s … Continued
By
Katie Pearce
8:54 AM EDT on April 18, 2014
- CBO: Obama’s Budget Would Leave Highway Trust Fund With Shortfall (The Hill)
- D.C. Mayor Pushes Back Long-Awaited Zoning Overhaul (GGW)
- Shuster Outraises Opponents Several Times Over (Politics PA)
- CheapAir.com Adds Amtrak Booking (USA Today)
- $360M Available for California Biking/Pedestrian Projects (KTVN)
- No Charges for Driver Who Killed NRDC’s Joy Covey on Bike (Almanac News)
- Nashville’s “Revised” BRT Isn’t Really BRT (Atlantic Cities)
- New Leader Takes Helm of Congress of the New Urbanism (Metropolis Mag)
- High-Speed Rail an Option for Upstate NY (LoHud)
- Atlanta Mayor Says Streetcar Will Start Running This Year (Railway Age)
- Seattle Approves Master Plan for Cycling (Curbed)
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