Today's Headlines

Today’s Headlines

Is the Senate Bill’s New “Major Projects” Program Just a Front For Earmarks? (E&E) Forbes Puts the Odds of a Long-Term Transpo Bill At Zero The Nation and 350 Action Challenge 2016 Candidates to Reject Oil and Gas Campaign Money (Grist) International Climate Bigwigs Urge Action By Cities to Reduce Emissions (Grist) A System-by-System Review … Continued

By Tanya Snyder

8:53 AM EDT on July 8, 2015

Is the Senate Bill’s New “Major Projects” Program Just a Front For Earmarks? (E&E)
Forbes Puts the Odds of a Long-Term Transpo Bill At Zero
The Nation and 350 Action Challenge 2016 Candidates to Reject Oil and Gas Campaign Money (Grist)
International Climate Bigwigs Urge Action By Cities to Reduce Emissions (Grist)
A System-by-System Review Shows Huge Net Benefits of Transit Even in Rural Areas (Mineta)
Here Are the Roads Maryland Will Build With Money Plundered From the Red and Purple Lines (GGW)
For the First Time Ever, Missouri DOT Has No Expansion Projects in the 5-Year Pipeline (Post-Dispatch)
Oregon’s New VMT Fee System Needs to Wrestle With the Problem of Fee Evasion (Oregonian)
LA Times Explains Bike-Share to an Uninitiated Populace
North Carolina Fight Over Road Funds Mirrors Wisconsin’s (Observer)
Will Ford Motor Company Improve Upon the Bicycle? (CityLab)
It’s So Hard to Remake the Suburbs Because They’re Literally Toxic (WestNorth)

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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