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 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)
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