Today’s Headlines
Transportation for America Chooses Favorite TIGER Projects An Urbanist’s Review of Pro-Walk Pro-Bike and Its Host City (Community Architect) Pro-Walk Pro-Bike Leaves Behind a Two-Way Cycletrack (Post-Gazette) Maryland Ballot Measure Would Prevent Raiding of Transportation Fund (Herald-Mail) Texas Has $54 Billion in Road Debt and Wants Permission to Spend More (Star-Telegram) Charlotte Finds Streetcar Operational Costs … Continued
By
Tanya Snyder
8:51 AM EDT on September 15, 2014
- Transportation for America Chooses Favorite TIGER Projects
- An Urbanist’s Review of Pro-Walk Pro-Bike and Its Host City (Community Architect)
- Pro-Walk Pro-Bike Leaves Behind a Two-Way Cycletrack (Post-Gazette)
- Maryland Ballot Measure Would Prevent Raiding of Transportation Fund (Herald-Mail)
- Texas Has $54 Billion in Road Debt and Wants Permission to Spend More (Star-Telegram)
- Charlotte Finds Streetcar Operational Costs Will Be Double Bus, Light Rail Costs (Observer)
- Enquirer Lays Out 8 Steps to a Fully Funded Cincy Streetcar
- Santa Monica’s Mountain Lions and the Developing World’s Road-Building Boom (Salon)
- Cost Estimates for Boston’s Green Line Rise to $2 Billion (WBUR)
- Wider Bike Lanes Make Drivers Less Anxious (Road.cc)
- More Research Shows Active Transpo Makes Us Happy (CityLab)
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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