Today’s Headlines
Barbara Boxer Confident Congress Will Pass a Three-Year Transpo Bill (Transport Topics) Supreme Court Ruling on Fair Housing Act Has Implications for Transit Too (Next City) Amtrak Wants to Expand Rail Service in Ohio, But Does Gov. Kasich? (Dayton Daily News, Planetizen) If Congestion Is Getting Worse, Why Are We Spending Less Time Traveling? (Planetizen) Sam … Continued
By
Tanya Snyder
8:54 AM EDT on September 3, 2015
- Barbara Boxer Confident Congress Will Pass a Three-Year Transpo Bill (Transport Topics)
- Supreme Court Ruling on Fair Housing Act Has Implications for Transit Too (Next City)
- Amtrak Wants to Expand Rail Service in Ohio, But Does Gov. Kasich? (Dayton Daily News, Planetizen)
- If Congestion Is Getting Worse, Why Are We Spending Less Time Traveling? (Planetizen)
- Sam Schwartz Breaks Down the Tension Between Mobility and Access in LA Times Op-Ed
- Federal Money Available to Make Rail Crossings Safer (Sun Times)
- Why Isn’t London’s Low Emission Zone Having Any Health Impacts? (CityLab)
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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