Today’s Headlines
LaHood to Talk Light Rail in Detroit (Free Press) A Plea to Make Reducing the Death Toll on American Streets a Presidential Priority (NYT) Will the Proposed I-11 Be “The Last American Superhighway”? (Next American City) Experts: Pittsburgh Has Ingredients for Smart Transit (Post-Gazette) Feds Give $75M to Extend Mesa, AZ Light Rail (Republic, AP) … Continued
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Katie Pearce
8:57 AM EDT on October 15, 2012
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- LaHood to Talk Light Rail in Detroit (Free Press)
- A Plea to Make Reducing the Death Toll on American Streets a Presidential Priority (NYT)
- Will the Proposed I-11 Be “The Last American Superhighway”? (Next American City)
- Experts: Pittsburgh Has Ingredients for Smart Transit (Post-Gazette)
- Feds Give $75M to Extend Mesa, AZ Light Rail (Republic, AP)
- CNN Looks at the Long Brotherhood of Politics and Railways
- Smart Growth Group Takes Issue with GMU Study on D.C. Commuting
- In California, Gas Prices Drive Growth of Cycling, But Don’t Increase Transit Use in North County
- Louisville, KY Celebrates “Open Streets” Movement (Courier Journal)
- Can a Cardboard Bicycle Change the World? (CNBC)
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