Today’s Headlines
MD’s Federal Lawmakers Push for Purple, Red Lines With Hogan (Daily Record) Boxer Again Sounds Alarm on Long-Term Transpo Funding (Transport Topics) Senator Huffman Proposes Taxing Carbon Emissions Instead of Gas (Press-Democrat) The Impact of Minneapolis Light Rail Is in the Eye of the Beholder (Next City) Mobilizing the Region Reviews The Good, Bad and Ugly … Continued
By
Katie Pearce
8:59 AM EST on January 16, 2015
- MD’s Federal Lawmakers Push for Purple, Red Lines With Hogan (Daily Record)
- Boxer Again Sounds Alarm on Long-Term Transpo Funding (Transport Topics)
- Senator Huffman Proposes Taxing Carbon Emissions Instead of Gas (Press-Democrat)
- The Impact of Minneapolis Light Rail Is in the Eye of the Beholder (Next City)
- Mobilizing the Region Reviews The Good, Bad and Ugly of NJ Transpo Last Year
- Columbus, OH, Rediscovers Walkable Urbanism (Columbus Dispatch)
- Is Baltimore Ready to Get Serious About Cycling? (Baltimore Brew)
- 2,000 in Seattle Have Ditched Personal Cars for Car-Sharing (The Stranger)
- How the National Institutes of Health Skirts Modern Parking Standards (GGW)
- In MD Burbs, Parents Investigated for Letting Kids Walk a Mile Alone (WaPo)
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