Today’s Headlines
The Tolling Industry’s Take on the Administration’s Infrastructure Summit (HuffPo) Indiana Tries to Summon Political Courage to Tackle Transpo Funding Shortfall (WISH-TV) DC Metro Red Line to Close on Weekends in 2016 for Repairs (GGW) Jeff Speck: Ban the 12-Foot Traffic Lane! (CityLab) As More People Move to Downtowns, Transit Infrastructure Can’t Keep Up (Star) … Continued
By
Tanya Snyder
8:43 AM EDT on October 7, 2014
- The Tolling Industry’s Take on the Administration’s Infrastructure Summit (HuffPo)
- Indiana Tries to Summon Political Courage to Tackle Transpo Funding Shortfall (WISH-TV)
- DC Metro Red Line to Close on Weekends in 2016 for Repairs (GGW)
- Jeff Speck: Ban the 12-Foot Traffic Lane! (CityLab)
- As More People Move to Downtowns, Transit Infrastructure Can’t Keep Up (Star)
- Are Private Buses the Solution? They Used to Be the Problem (Treehugger)
- How 50 Years of Bullet Trains Have Helped Japan, Firm by Firm (Atlantic)
- New Laws Aim to Criminalize Harassment of People on Foot or on a Bike (CityLab)
- To Understand the Gender Gap in Biking, Look to the Gender Gap in Everything Else (Guardian)
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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