Today’s Headlines
White House “Strongly Opposes” House Appropriations Bill for Transportation (Hill) Brookings: “Innovation Districts” Concentrate Ideas, Technology, Development in Urban Form House Rejects Funding Cuts For Amtrak, In Unprecedented Act of Reason (Hill) Postmaster General Doesn’t Mind GOP Plan to Pay for Transpo By Cutting Saturday Delivery (Hill) Teamsters Union Urges Congress to Restore Hours-of-Service Rules … Continued
By
Tanya Snyder
8:55 AM EDT on June 10, 2014
- White House “Strongly Opposes” House Appropriations Bill for Transportation (Hill)
- Brookings: “Innovation Districts” Concentrate Ideas, Technology, Development in Urban Form
- House Rejects Funding Cuts For Amtrak, In Unprecedented Act of Reason (Hill)
- Postmaster General Doesn’t Mind GOP Plan to Pay for Transpo By Cutting Saturday Delivery (Hill)
- Teamsters Union Urges Congress to Restore Hours-of-Service Rules for Truckers (PR Newswire)
- A Deeper Analysis of the Anecdotal Evidence That Bike-Share Hurts Bike Shops (>WaPo)
- RideScout App Expands Into 69 New Cities (Oregonian)
- Toll Roads in Dallas Flood Plain: A “Radically Backward” Idea (D Magazine)
- Florida Gov. Rick Scott Under Fire for Supporting East Coast Rail (TBT)
- Study: 91,000 of Chicago’s 125,000 Daily Bike Trips Are Utilitarian (Sun-Times)
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.
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