Today’s Headlines
RIP Car Talk’s Surprisingly Car-Free Tom Magliozzi (Cyclelicio.us) Today, Maryland, Massachusetts and Other States Vote on Transpo Questions (WBAL, Roll Call) Why Are Gas Prices Dropping Below $3 a Gallon? Demand Is Low (NJ.com, CEPR) How New Jersey Transit Will Weather the Next Superstorm (Next City) DC Metro Already Thinks 2015-16 Is Going to Suck for Ridership, Revenues … Continued
By
Tanya Snyder
8:43 AM EST on November 4, 2014
- RIP Car Talk’s Surprisingly Car-Free Tom Magliozzi (Cyclelicio.us)
- Today, Maryland, Massachusetts and Other States Vote on Transpo Questions (WBAL, Roll Call)
- Why Are Gas Prices Dropping Below $3 a Gallon? Demand Is Low (NJ.com, CEPR)
- How New Jersey Transit Will Weather the Next Superstorm (Next City)
- DC Metro Already Thinks 2015-16 Is Going to Suck for Ridership, Revenues (WaPo)
- Kids These Days Aren’t Buying Houses Like They Used To (WaPo)
- ThinkProgress Profiles Veronica Davis, DC’s Most Media-Friendly Bike Proponent
- CityLab Makes the Case for a National Miles-Traveled Fee
- Reason: Feds Shouldn’t Fund Infrastructure By Borrowing
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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