Today's Headlines

Today’s Headlines

Fracking Boom Has Turned Texas Highways Into the Nation’s Deadliest (NPR) Why New Jersey Spends 8 Times the National Average on Roads (USA Today) Texas Voters to Decide Whether to Spend Rainy Day Fund on Roads (KFOX14) Number 12 in the California HSR Chronicles: Commute Logistics (Atlantic) Boston’s Beacon Street Is Designed for Speed (Walking … Continued

By Tanya Snyder

8:39 AM EDT on October 13, 2014

Fracking Boom Has Turned Texas Highways Into the Nation’s Deadliest (NPR)
Why New Jersey Spends 8 Times the National Average on Roads (USA Today)
Texas Voters to Decide Whether to Spend Rainy Day Fund on Roads (KFOX14)
Number 12 in the California HSR Chronicles: Commute Logistics (Atlantic)
Boston’s Beacon Street Is Designed for Speed (Walking Bostonian)
Streets.MN Pans Minneapolis Streetcar Plan
Can Transit Agencies Rebrand Buses as Cool? (In Transition)
All London’s Political Parties Support Bike Superhighway, But Lobbyists Don’t (Guardian)
Use Form-Based Codes, Not Arbitrary Density Goals, to Build Places (Public CEO)
Housing Costs Out of Control in Hot Cities, Feds of No Help (Politico)
… Inclusionary Upzoning Can Bring Prices Down (Rooflines)

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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