Today's Headlines

Today’s Headlines

A Day After an Oil Tanker Sets River on Fire, Coal Train Derails (WaPo, Baltimore Sun) Bike League Gets Behind New Bill on Safety Transparency in Driverless Cars Cincinnati Will Get Its Bike Lane (Business Courier) Already Two Years Behind Schedule, Silver Spring Transit Center Faces More Problems (Sentinel) Houston Continues to Develop Around Scattered Employment Centers … Continued

By Tanya Snyder

8:54 AM EDT on May 2, 2014

A Day After an Oil Tanker Sets River on Fire, Coal Train Derails (WaPo, Baltimore Sun)
Bike League Gets Behind New Bill on Safety Transparency in Driverless Cars
Cincinnati Will Get Its Bike Lane (Business Courier)
Already Two Years Behind Schedule, Silver Spring Transit Center Faces More Problems (Sentinel)
Houston Continues to Develop Around Scattered Employment Centers (Chron)
Another Streetcar Runs Up Against City Council Opposition, This Time in Salt Lake City (Tribune)
Connecticut Collects $15 Million to Spur Transit-Oriented Development (Courant)
8 Awe-Inspiring Mass Transit Systems That Changed Their Cities (io9)
Smart Growth for Conservatives Responds to the Anti-Density Sunlight Argument

Tanya Snyder

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.

Today's Headlines

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