Today’s Headlines
White House Gathers Praise for Its Infrastructure Investment Initiative Trust Fund Extension Just Another Crisis in Congress’s Unending Drama (NPR) The Future of U.S. Transportation Funding Is in Tolling (Salon) No-New-Taxes Pledges Are Handcuffing Congress (Athens Banner-Herald) The GOP Betrays the Founding Fathers’ (and Their Own Party’s) Infrastructure Commitment (Salon) New Orleans Lays Out 2030 Transit Plan (Times-Picayune) Inferior … Continued
By
Tanya Snyder
8:51 AM EDT on July 21, 2014
- White House Gathers Praise for Its Infrastructure Investment Initiative
- Trust Fund Extension Just Another Crisis in Congress’s Unending Drama (NPR)
- The Future of U.S. Transportation Funding Is in Tolling (Salon)
- No-New-Taxes Pledges Are Handcuffing Congress (Athens Banner-Herald)
- The GOP Betrays the Founding Fathers’ (and Their Own Party’s) Infrastructure Commitment (Salon)
- New Orleans Lays Out 2030 Transit Plan (Times-Picayune)
- Inferior Transit and Bikeability Keeps Miami From “World-Class City” Status (Herald)
- New Twin Cities Green Line Beats Projections (Pioneer Press)
- “This Bicycle Kills Patriarchy”: The Long Love Affair Between Women and Bikes (Neon Tommy)
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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