Today’s Headlines
Obama Taps Mendez, Rogoff for Key DOT Spots (Better Roads) Foxx Rallies with Unions on Highway Trust Fund (USA Today) Shuster Faces Primary Next Tuesday (The Hill) “Bike to Work Day” Is Already the Culture in D.C. (WaPo) Missouri Voters to Decide on Sales Tax Increase for Transpo (Columbia Daily Trib) Why Seattle Suburbanites Can’t Support … Continued
By
Katie Pearce
8:52 AM EDT on May 16, 2014
- Obama Taps Mendez, Rogoff for Key DOT Spots (Better Roads)
- Foxx Rallies with Unions on Highway Trust Fund (USA Today)
- Shuster Faces Primary Next Tuesday (The Hill)
- “Bike to Work Day” Is Already the Culture in D.C. (WaPo)
- Missouri Voters to Decide on Sales Tax Increase for Transpo (Columbia Daily Trib)
- Why Seattle Suburbanites Can’t Support Transit Measures as Readily as City Dwellers (Grist)
- How Will the Silver Line Affect the Virginia Burbs? (Next City)
- Salt Lake City Moves Away From the Car (Time)
- Could Madison, WI, Replace Messy Intersection With Its Own Millennium Park? (Cap Times)
- Five Ways to Improve Suburban Sprawl (NationSwell)
- How Can Middle Tennessee Plan Wisely for Its Population Growth? (Nashville Ledger)
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