Today’s Headlines
Seattle’s Bike-Share System Launches With 500 Bikes (Post-Intelligencer, Slog) Tucson Streetcar Beats Expectations (Clean Technica) Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker Has Surprisingly Non-Crazy Idea for Transpo Funding (State Journal) Philadelphia Studies Feasibility of Restoring Transit on Abandoned Line (Next City) Providence TIGER Grant Has Connecticut Thinking About Streetcars (WNPR) What If LA and Dallas Had the … Continued
By
Tanya Snyder
8:48 AM EDT on October 14, 2014
- Seattle’s Bike-Share System Launches With 500 Bikes (Post-Intelligencer, Slog)
- Tucson Streetcar Beats Expectations (Clean Technica)
- Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker Has Surprisingly Non-Crazy Idea for Transpo Funding (State Journal)
- Philadelphia Studies Feasibility of Restoring Transit on Abandoned Line (Next City)
- Providence TIGER Grant Has Connecticut Thinking About Streetcars (WNPR)
- What If LA and Dallas Had the Transit That Was Planned Decades Ago? (SCPR, D Mag)
- DC Mayoral Frontrunner Muriel Bowser Talks Housing, Transit with GGW
- Here’s How Dallas Plans to Spend $38M in TAP Bike/Ped Money (Star Courier)
- DC Most Expensive U.S. City Says Survey That Counts Laundry Soap But Not Transportation (WaPo)
- Why Are We Still Building Streetcars With Overhead Wires? (The Age)
- The U.S. Needs a Drivers’ Version of This Dutch App that Rewards Phone-Free Biking (Cyclicio.us)
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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