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Today’s Headlines

Per-Capita Driving Lower Than During “Pit of the Recession” Across the U.S. (Frontier Group) Portland Mayor Pushes Tolls at Earl Blumenauer’s Transpo Forum (Oregonian) Leaving NYC and SF to Cure Homebuyer Sticker Shock in Oklahoma City (NYT) Town Center Developments Urbanize Boston Suburbs (Globe) Chicago-to-Iowa City Rail Link Inches Closer to Reality (Quad City Times) Georgia Working … Continued

By Tanya Snyder

8:56 AM EDT on August 5, 2014

Per-Capita Driving Lower Than During “Pit of the Recession” Across the U.S. (Frontier Group)
Portland Mayor Pushes Tolls at Earl Blumenauer’s Transpo Forum (Oregonian)
Leaving NYC and SF to Cure Homebuyer Sticker Shock in Oklahoma City (NYT)
Town Center Developments Urbanize Boston Suburbs (Globe)
Chicago-to-Iowa City Rail Link Inches Closer to Reality (Quad City Times)
Georgia Working on “Plan B” Transpo Plan in Wake of T-SPLOST Defeat (AJC)
Tampa Area Clumsily Moving Toward Regional Transit Unity (Times)
Five New Silver Line Stations Saw 220,000 Riders on Opening Weekend (Mass Transit)

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.

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