Today’s Headlines
Senate Finance Committee Hoping to Get Moving on Extension This Week (Roll Call) White House Still Pushing Its Transpo Bill, Amid Crickets in Congress (The Hill) WaPo’s Wonkblog Does Its “Five Graphs” Treatment on the Highway Trust Fund WaPo Blows Holes in Grover Norquist’s Odd Assertion That Uber and Lyft Will Boost the GOP in Cities Bill … Continued
By
Tanya Snyder
8:44 AM EDT on July 8, 2014
- Senate Finance Committee Hoping to Get Moving on Extension This Week (Roll Call)
- White House Still Pushing Its Transpo Bill, Amid Crickets in Congress (The Hill)
- WaPo’s Wonkblog Does Its “Five Graphs” Treatment on the Highway Trust Fund
- WaPo Blows Holes in Grover Norquist’s Odd Assertion That Uber and Lyft Will Boost the GOP in Cities
- Bill Ford Doing Some “Fundamental Rethinking” About the Car Business (WSJ)
- The Twin Cities’ New Green Line: Slower Than a Bus, Costlier Than a Streetcar (Streets.MN)
- To Meet Green Goals, Philly Can’t Just Improve Bike/Ped — It Has to Stop Subsidizing Driving (Next City)
- These Maps Show Where Biking Is Faster Than Driving (WaPo)
- NIMBYs Lose Court Challenge to Bay Area TOD Plan (Inside Bay Area)
- Revolving Door Pays Off for Indiana Transpo Official Under Ethics Investigation (The Republic)
- DC Tries Again to Protect Cyclists From Illegal U-Turns on Pennsylvania Avenue (WAMU)
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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