Today’s Headlines
Obama Will Push Congress on Infrastructure Investment This Week (AP) Reflections From Congressman Jim Oberstar‘s Funeral (WaPo) TOD Bill Would Help Build the Kinds of Communities Young People Want to Live In (Grist) A History of Ann Arbor’s Last Transit Tax Vote — In 1973 (MLive) Could Parks and Green Spaces Fill in the “Hollow Blocks” … Continued
By
Tanya Snyder
8:58 AM EDT on May 12, 2014
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- Obama Will Push Congress on Infrastructure Investment This Week (AP)
- Reflections From Congressman Jim Oberstar‘s Funeral (WaPo)
- TOD Bill Would Help Build the Kinds of Communities Young People Want to Live In (Grist)
- A History of Ann Arbor’s Last Transit Tax Vote — In 1973 (MLive)
- Could Parks and Green Spaces Fill in the “Hollow Blocks” of New York and Other Cities? (Salon)
- This Map Combines 267 Miles of Proposed Transit in the DC Region (GGW)
- China Is Considering Building a Train to America, Tunneling Under Bering Strait (Policy Mic)
- UK Considers Implementation of “Cycle Streets,” Where Bikes Have Priority (Daily Mail)
- Slow-Parenting Advocate Cheers Train Travel on National Train Day (CS Monitor)
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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