Today’s Headlines
Senator Carper Gives Up on Lame Duck Transpo Bill (News Journal) AAA Expects Gas Prices to Keep Dropping (CBS/AP) And Here’s Why (Vox) …Sounds Like a Perfect Time for a Gas Tax Hike, Says Ed Rendell (CNBC) The Atlantic Explores the Reasons Behind Congress’s Gas Tax Paralysis Tampa — One of the Deadliest Cities in America … Continued
By
Tanya Snyder
8:41 AM EST on December 8, 2014
- Senator Carper Gives Up on Lame Duck Transpo Bill (News Journal)
- AAA Expects Gas Prices to Keep Dropping (CBS/AP) And Here’s Why (Vox)
- …Sounds Like a Perfect Time for a Gas Tax Hike, Says Ed Rendell (CNBC)
- The Atlantic Explores the Reasons Behind Congress’s Gas Tax Paralysis
- Tampa — One of the Deadliest Cities in America for Pedestrians — Gets Bike-Share (WFLA)
- Thumbing Its Nose at Prohibition, Uber Launches in Portland (CNET)
- Light Rail Station Relocated to Be Less Convenient for Students, Because Safety (Virginian-Pilot)
- Michigan Road Funding Plan Could Impoverish Schools (9&10News)
- French Rail Firm SNCF Will Make Holocaust Reparations (AP)
- A Critical Mass Wedding (News-Press)
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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