Today’s Headlines
House Cuts to Transit, Amtrak Not Deep Enough for Heritage (The Hill) … These Are the Republicans Who Fought Against Those Cuts (The Hill) Bill Shuster: We Can Pass a Long-Term Transpo Bill This Year If We Lower Corporate Taxes (WABE) State DOTs Rebuffed For Using Wildly Inflated Traffic Forecasts to Justify New Highways (Vox) Gillibrand … Continued
By
Tanya Snyder
8:50 AM EDT on June 11, 2015
- House Cuts to Transit, Amtrak Not Deep Enough for Heritage (The Hill)
- … These Are the Republicans Who Fought Against Those Cuts (The Hill)
- Bill Shuster: We Can Pass a Long-Term Transpo Bill This Year If We Lower Corporate Taxes (WABE)
- State DOTs Rebuffed For Using Wildly Inflated Traffic Forecasts to Justify New Highways (Vox)
- Gillibrand Wants to Restore Federal Funding for Local Bridges (LandLine)
- Southern California HSR Opponents Fear Tracks Would Divide Communities (Daily News)
- Toronto’s Chief Planner Wants to Tear Down the Gardiner Expressway — Here’s Why (CityLab)
- LADOT’s Seleta Reynolds: City Planners Need to Partner Better With Communities (Crosscut)
- “Our Charming Downtown Is Turning Into a Bike Parking Lot” — And They’re Charging For It (MarinScope)
- Driverless Cars a Mere 5-10 Years Away? Don’t Believe It (Crikey)
- Advice on Biking With Your Kid, From a Car-Free Parent (Chicago Mag)
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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