Today's Headlines

Today’s Headlines

Per Capita Vehicle-Miles-Traveled Drops Again (Investing) LaHood Predicts “Nothing Introduced, Nothing Debated” in House on Transpo Bill (The Hill) Memorial Day Marks the Beginning of 100 Deadliest Days on the Roads (Boise Weekly, KSL, CNN) How Houston Plans to Boost Bus Ridership By 20 Percent Without Spending a Dime (Salon) Georgia Stalling Projects Because of Federal Funding Uncertainty (Savannah Morning … Continued

By Tanya Snyder

8:53 AM EDT on May 27, 2014

Per Capita Vehicle-Miles-Traveled Drops Again (Investing)
LaHood Predicts “Nothing Introduced, Nothing Debated” in House on Transpo Bill (The Hill)
Memorial Day Marks the Beginning of 100 Deadliest Days on the Roads (Boise Weekly, KSL, CNN)
How Houston Plans to Boost Bus Ridership By 20 Percent Without Spending a Dime (Salon)
Georgia Stalling Projects Because of Federal Funding Uncertainty (Savannah Morning News)
Massachusetts GOP Calls Gas Tax Indexing “Taxation Without Representation” (Herald)
Concern for Cars Leads to Mass Tree Cutting in Oregon (Daily Astorian)
Winnipeg Joins List of Cities Whose BRT Projects Are Under Attack (Winnipeg Free Press)
A Parking Spot in Beijing Can Cost Up to $160,000 (Quartz, via Planetizen)
Unusually Good-Natured Guy Videotapes Bike-Lane Blockers From Unusually Tall Bike (Treehugger)
Unforeseen Consequence of Driverless Cars: Plummeting Law Enforcement Budgets (Network World)

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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