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Today’s Headlines

NYT Editorial: U.S. DOT Is Taking Too Long to Require Trucker Training Even If the U.S. Opened High-Speed Rail Today, We’d Be 50 Years Behind Japan (Business Insider) Gov. Rick Snyder Says Transportation Is a Priority in Michigan’s Lame Duck (Crain’s) Utah’s Transit and Smart Growth Investments Have Paid Off in Shorter Commutes (AP) The Fault … Continued

By Tanya Snyder

8:45 AM EDT on October 6, 2014

NYT Editorial: U.S. DOT Is Taking Too Long to Require Trucker Training
Even If the U.S. Opened High-Speed Rail Today, We’d Be 50 Years Behind Japan (Business Insider)
Gov. Rick Snyder Says Transportation Is a Priority in Michigan’s Lame Duck (Crain’s)
Utah’s Transit and Smart Growth Investments Have Paid Off in Shorter Commutes (AP)
The Fault in Our Toll Roads (Texas Tribune)
Boulder Council Considers Experimenting With Protected Bike Lanes, Shared Streets (Camera)
Homobiles: Transportation for the Vulnerable and the Fabulous (NPR)
Georgia Trying Again With a Whole New SPLOST to Fund Transpo (And a Million Other Things) (MDJ)
Bike-Share Is Coming to Tucson (JRN)
People Respond to Massachusetts’ Sane Gas Tax Policy With Crazy (Globe)
Buses on Northern Virginia’s Congested I-66 Will Get Their Own Slow Lane (WaPo)

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.

Today's Headlines

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