Today’s Headlines
More headlines over at Streetsblog Capitol Hill
7:56 AM PDT on August 21, 2009
- Prepare To Be Mad: Cyclist Forced Off Road Into Parked Car, Being Pursued for Damages, LAPD Doesn’t Investigate Hit and Run (City Watch)
- Pols Hang Out in Parking Lot to Celebrate End of S2tS Soil Sampling (Times, Daily News, KABC)
- Mayor Hilariously Believes Subway Can Be Completed in 10 Years (Curbed, Transport Politic)
- In Three Paragraphs, Examiner Tells Us More About Turnstiles Than Times in Entire Article
- Georgia Road Expansions Feast on Stim Cash as State DOT Starves Rail Projects (AJC)
- Chicago Sued Over Bungled Meter Privatization (Sun-Times via Planetizen)
- Florida DOT Has a Cars-Only Fixation Too (Transit Miami via Streetsblog.net)
- Subsidizing Car Purchases: Smart or Dumb? Kossacks Weigh In
- Actress Alexis Bledel Loves Biking “All Around L.A.” (Hampton Roads)
More headlines over at Streetsblog Capitol Hill
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