Today’s Headlines
Speaker Boehner: Passing a Long-Term Transportation Bill Is “Doable” (The Hill) Seattle’s King County Cuts 28 Bus Routes, Considers Expanding Paratransit (Q13 Fox, Kirkland Reporter) Market-Rate Parking Comes to Seattle (CrossCut) Divvy Bike-Share Expands to Chicago Suburbs (Sun-Times) Bikelash Snarls Completion of Philly Bike Lane (Inquirer via Planetizen) Rail Line Will Be Restored As Part of I-11 Nevada Boondoggle … Continued
By
Tanya Snyder
8:48 AM EDT on September 29, 2014
- Speaker Boehner: Passing a Long-Term Transportation Bill Is “Doable” (The Hill)
- Seattle’s King County Cuts 28 Bus Routes, Considers Expanding Paratransit (Q13 Fox, Kirkland Reporter)
- Market-Rate Parking Comes to Seattle (CrossCut)
- Divvy Bike-Share Expands to Chicago Suburbs (Sun-Times)
- Bikelash Snarls Completion of Philly Bike Lane (Inquirer via Planetizen)
- Rail Line Will Be Restored As Part of I-11 Nevada Boondoggle (Review Journal)
- Transit, Bikes Boom in Pollution-Choked China (ECNS)
- LA Started Sprawling Well Before World War II (The Last Word on Nothing)
- Study: Active Transpo Can Help People Meet Physical Activity Recommendations (7th Space)
- People for Bikes Is Expanding Its Study Trips Outside Its Focus Cities (Next City)
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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