Today’s Headlines
CBO: President Obama’s $302 Billion Transportation Budget Still $4B Short (LandLine) Outgoing NTSB Chief Deborah Hersman Warns of Complacency (The Hill) Here’s Why We Need to Stop Relying on Alternative Fuels to Save Us From Global Warming (AP) Seattle Votes Today on Measure to Fund Transit (Seattle Transit Blog) Bertha Will Be Back in Business … Continued
By
Tanya Snyder
8:47 AM EDT on April 22, 2014
- CBO: President Obama’s $302 Billion Transportation Budget Still $4B Short (LandLine)
- Outgoing NTSB Chief Deborah Hersman Warns of Complacency (The Hill)
- Here’s Why We Need to Stop Relying on Alternative Fuels to Save Us From Global Warming (AP)
- Seattle Votes Today on Measure to Fund Transit (Seattle Transit Blog)
- Bertha Will Be Back in Business Tunneling Under Seattle… In 11 Months (PI)
- Public Consultation Is Great, But the Process Over DC’s Zoning Update Is Getting Crazy (GGW)
- We’re #220! Atlanta’s Saporta Report Examines the Meaning of Smart Growth America’s Sprawl Ranking
- The New York Times Catches on to Millennials’ Preference for Cities, But Can’t Figure Out Why (Grist)
- Universities to Measure the “Imagination” of HSR in the US (Phys.org)
- Want to Enforce the Three-Foot Passing Law? Do It Like This Guy in Houston (Click2Houston)
- Transportation Jobs Around the World (Gizmodo)
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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