Today's Headlines

Today’s Headlines

House Passes Transpo Funding Bill That Starves Transit, Amtrak (Committee, The Hill) Highways & Transit Chair Confident Congress Will Pass a 5-Year Bill This Year (BizJournal) Rep. Shuster Warms to Obama’s Idea of Funding Infrastructure With Repatriated Funds (DC Velocity) Free Transit, No Parking at Pan Am Games in Toronto (CBC) WI Senate Republican Says Gov. Walker’s Road … Continued

By Tanya Snyder

8:00 AM EDT on June 10, 2015

Sponsored

House Passes Transpo Funding Bill That Starves Transit, Amtrak (Committee, The Hill)
Highways & Transit Chair Confident Congress Will Pass a 5-Year Bill This Year (BizJournal)
Rep. Shuster Warms to Obama’s Idea of Funding Infrastructure With Repatriated Funds (DC Velocity)
Free Transit, No Parking at Pan Am Games in Toronto (CBC)
WI Senate Republican Says Gov. Walker’s Road Debt Is “Not Sustainable” (New Richmond)
Seattle City Council Members Push for Streetcar With Dedicated Lane (K5)
Because of Cars, Sprawl, America’s “Connective Tissue… Is Coming Apart,” Says Joe Cortright (WaPo)
Impunity for Traffic Violence. Distracted Driving. It’s All Been Around Since 1928. (GGW)
The Urbanist’s Summer Reading List (Next City)
Canadian Kids Get a “D” For Active Transportation (CBC)
Has Copenhagenize Come Up With a Better Way to Rank Cities on Bicycling? (Crikey)

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.

Today's Headlines

Support Streetsblog

Streetsblog has migrated to a new comment system. New commenters can register directly in the comments section of any article. Returning commenters: your previous comments and display name have been preserved, but you'll need to reclaim your account by clicking "Forgot your password?" on the sign-in form, entering your email, and following the verification link to set a new password — this is required because passwords could not be carried over during the migration. For questions, contact tips@streetsblog.org.