Today’s Headlines
Obama Should Lead on Highway Trust Fund Solution (Seacoast Online) Building a Palmdale-to-Burbank Segment Now Would Make California HSR a Train to Somewhere (LAT) Or Should California Forget HSR and Focus on Improving Regular Passenger Rail? (Tracy Press) Is Oil Transportation By Rail Safe? (Sightline, CTV News) Unplanned Urban Sprawl Brought About the Bee Famine … Continued
By
Tanya Snyder
8:51 AM EDT on July 7, 2014
- Obama Should Lead on Highway Trust Fund Solution (Seacoast Online)
- Building a Palmdale-to-Burbank Segment Now Would Make California HSR a Train to Somewhere (LAT)
- Or Should California Forget HSR and Focus on Improving Regular Passenger Rail? (Tracy Press)
- Is Oil Transportation By Rail Safe? (Sightline, CTV News)
- Unplanned Urban Sprawl Brought About the Bee Famine (Sac Bee)
- Another Unarmed Woman Beaten by Police for Sake of “the Motoring Public” (Salon)
- How Arlington Grew Its Population and Shrunk Its Car Traffic (Salon)
- West Virginia Faces Reality of Maxed-Out Roads, Considers Transit Options (Post and Courier)
- Rail Line Changes Fabric of Houston Neighborhood (News-Journal)
- Gas Tax Increase Makes Governor Vulnerable to Campaign Attacks (Concord Monitor)
- Centennial Trail, Planned “Backbone” of Helena Nonmotorized Transpo, Hits Roadblocks (IR)
- Delia Ephron Graces NYT With Anecdotes From the Self-Driving Future
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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