Today’s Headlines
- Obama Will Push Congress on Infrastructure Investment This Week (AP)
- Reflections From Congressman Jim Oberstar's Funeral (WaPo)
- TOD Bill Would Help Build the Kinds of Communities Young People Want to Live In (Grist)
- A History of Ann Arbor's Last Transit Tax Vote -- In 1973 (MLive)
- Could Parks and Green Spaces Fill in the "Hollow Blocks" of New York and Other Cities? (Salon)
- This Map Combines 267 Miles of Proposed Transit in the DC Region (GGW)
- China Is Considering Building a Train to America, Tunneling Under Bering Strait (Policy Mic)
- UK Considers Implementation of "Cycle Streets," Where Bikes Have Priority (Daily Mail)
- Slow-Parenting Advocate Cheers Train Travel on National Train Day (CS Monitor)
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