Today's Headlines

Today’s Headlines

Sao Paulo Transit Workers Go on Strike a Week Before World Cup (SI Wire) Senate Finance Committee Plans to Pass Transpo Funding Plan By July 4… (BNA) … While Tussling Over Tax Reform (The Hill) Senate Transpo Budget Includes Amendment to Suspend Rule on Truckers’ Sleep (Overdrive) WaPo: Congress at a Low Point With Transportation … Continued

By Tanya Snyder

8:51 AM EDT on June 6, 2014

Sao Paulo Transit Workers Go on Strike a Week Before World Cup (SI Wire)
Senate Finance Committee Plans to Pass Transpo Funding Plan By July 4… (BNA)
… While Tussling Over Tax Reform (The Hill)
Senate Transpo Budget Includes Amendment to Suspend Rule on Truckers’ Sleep (Overdrive)
WaPo: Congress at a Low Point With Transportation Funding Dysfunction
LaHood Scores Another Consultancy Gig, This Time With Caterpillar (Daily Journal)
In Wisconsin, Tolls Get Public Acceptance Where Taxes Don’t (Cap Times)
Dallas Police Are Using Helmet Law to Harass People of Color (Morning News)
To Take Advantage of Downtown Population Bump, Hartford Needs to Get Rid of Some Parking (TSTC)
America’s Love Affair With the Automobile Is on the Rocks (AP)
A 7-Part Plan to Make Transit Financially Sustainable (CityLab)

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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