Today’s Headlines
Senate Expected to Unveil Transpo Bill This Week Bearing No Resemblance to Obama’s (Roll Call) A Reminder Why Congress Really Has to Pass a Transpo Bill This Year (WaPo) 5 Reasons Oregon Everyone Should Be Freaking Out About Trust Fund Crisis (Oregonian, Pew) Jill Abramson’s Painful, Personal Tale as a Pedestrian Injury Statistic (NYT) Seven Transit Projects … Continued
By
Tanya Snyder
8:44 AM EDT on May 6, 2014
- Senate Expected to Unveil Transpo Bill This Week Bearing No Resemblance to Obama’s (Roll Call)
- A Reminder Why Congress Really Has to Pass a Transpo Bill This Year (WaPo)
- 5 Reasons
OregonEveryone Should Be Freaking Out About Trust Fund Crisis (Oregonian, Pew) - Jill Abramson’s Painful, Personal Tale as a Pedestrian Injury Statistic (NYT)
- Seven Transit Projects That Should Be Getting Built But Aren’t (Ped Observations)
- Seattle Bike-Share Will Be Branded “Alaska” (Slog, Curbed)
- 5 Reasons Connecticut Shouldn’t Spend $400 Million to Widen 3 Miles of I-84 (TSTC)
- Is Portland Still the Bicycling Mecca It Claims to Be? (Bike Portland)
- A Family Biking Movement Grows in Philly (Bike League)
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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