Today’s Headlines
Obama Wants to Stimulate More Private Infrastructure Investment (National Journal) DOT Chooses a Gold-Level Bike City and a Cyclist Death Trap For Bike Safety Summits (Fast Lane) Bike League Already Knows What the Outcome of Those Summits Should Be 800 People Per Square Mile? Your County Went For Obama. (Atlantic Cities) Canadian Tar Sands Oil … Continued
By
Tanya Snyder
8:55 AM EDT on April 2, 2013
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- Obama Wants to Stimulate More Private Infrastructure Investment (National Journal)
- DOT Chooses a Gold-Level Bike City and a Cyclist Death Trap For Bike Safety Summits (Fast Lane)
- Bike League Already Knows What the Outcome of Those Summits Should Be
- 800 People Per Square Mile? Your County Went For Obama. (Atlantic Cities)
- Canadian Tar Sands Oil Is Even Dirtier Than We’re Used To (WaPo)
- Washington Post Endorses Idea to Build Three Blocks of Parking Under the National Mall (City Paper)
- NextCity Shines Spotlight on Young Urbanist Leaders
- Now Anderson Cooper Will Only Get One Chance a Day to Slander High-Speed Rail (Salon)
- Five Buses and Three Trains: A Blind Man Navigates Transit Cuts (Transpo Nation)
- Think Transit Doesn’t Reduce Congestion? Try Taking It Away (Atlantic Cities)
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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