Today’s Headlines
More headlines at Streetsblog Capitol Hill
7:28 AM PDT on July 27, 2009
- State Backs Away from Plan to Rob Local Gas Taxes (Daily News)
- Pothole Repair Fund Spared in Budget Deal, Villaraigosa Celebrates (LA_Now)
- Man Convicted of Killing Police Officer While the Captain Biked to Work (Modesto Bee)
- Schumer Intros Bill to Ban Texting By Transit Operators, So Can the Feds Ban TWD Too? (NY1, Post)
- A New Billboard Problem, The Inflatable Bill Board (Curbed)
- Cap’n Transit: Let’s Shrink Sprawlsville, Not Walkable Urban Areas (via Streetsblog.net)
- California’s Disposable Cities (Next Aamerican City)
More headlines at Streetsblog Capitol Hill
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