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Could Tax Reform Really Be Possible in 2015? At Least a Gas Tax Hike? (The Hill) Sen. Bernie Sanders Makes Infrastructure Investment a Key Plank of His 2016 Platform (The Hill) Car Sales Boomed in 2014 (AP) California Breaks Ground on High-Speed Rail Line (CBS) Freight Traffic Is Growing, But Infrastructure Investment Isn’t (Journal of Commerce) Atlanta Streetcar … Continued

By Tanya Snyder

8:50 AM EST on January 5, 2015

Could Tax Reform Really Be Possible in 2015? At Least a Gas Tax Hike? (The Hill)
Sen. Bernie Sanders Makes Infrastructure Investment a Key Plank of His 2016 Platform (The Hill)
Car Sales Boomed in 2014 (AP)
California Breaks Ground on High-Speed Rail Line (CBS)
Freight Traffic Is Growing, But Infrastructure Investment Isn’t (Journal of Commerce)
Atlanta Streetcar Opens: “A Project for the Future” (NYT), Though Politico Is Skeptical
Massachusetts Paves the Way for Legal Operation by Uber and Lyft (Globe)
WaPo, RPUS List Top 10 DC Transportation Stories of 2014
Salt Lake City’s Eric Shaw Takes Over as DC Chief Planner, Still No DDOT Nominee (City Paper, GGW)
Baltimore Sun Begs Incoming Gov. Larry Hogan to Reconsider Opposition to Red and Purple Lines
They “Steal Our Freedom”: A Manifesto Against Cars in Cities (The Nature of Cities)

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.

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