Today’s Headlines
Road Builders: U.S. Has 63,000 Bridges in Need of Repair (Think Progress) Google Teaches Self-Driving Cars How to Behave Around Cyclists and Pedestrians (Google Blog) As Seattle Prop 1 Election Returns Remain Disappointing, New Proposal Emerges (KUOW) Massachusetts Seeks to Reduce Bike Injuries and Deaths By 20 Percent (BostInno) If DC Wants to Make a … Continued
By
Tanya Snyder
8:51 AM EDT on April 29, 2014
- Road Builders: U.S. Has 63,000 Bridges in Need of Repair (Think Progress)
- Google Teaches Self-Driving Cars How to Behave Around Cyclists and Pedestrians (Google Blog)
- As Seattle Prop 1 Election Returns Remain Disappointing, New Proposal Emerges (KUOW)
- Massachusetts Seeks to Reduce Bike Injuries and Deaths By 20 Percent (BostInno)
- If DC Wants to Make a Modest Adjustment to Its Height Act, It’s OK By Congress (The Hill)
- Officials Want to Widen Deadly Florida Speedway to Reduce Congestion (Huh?) (NBC)
- Austin Has a Drinking and Driving Problem (Culture Map)
- For Older Americans, a Bus Stop Is Freedom (Gizmodo)
- Toronto Mayoral Candidate Records Pro-Subway Version of Pitbull and Ke$ha’s “Timber” (CP24)
- “Why I Taught My Daughter to Bike in New York City” (Treehugger)
- If Biking Is Up, Why Are Bike Shops Struggling? (Motley Fool)
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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