Today’s Headlines

by Kathryn Reid Moore

  • House Committee to Hold Hearing on “Skyrocketing” Cost of CA HSR (Hill)
  • NTSB Calls for Banning Driver Cell Phone Use (NY Times)
  • Cell Phone Industry Reacts, Does Not Want to Restrict “Manual” Phone Use in Cars (Hill)
  • Ray LaHood Kicks Off Nationwide Crackdown on Drunk Driving (FastLane)
  • US Government Backs Detroit’s Regional Transit Plan (Detroit News)
  • New Passenger Rail Service to Connect Chicago, Quad Cities, by 2014 (Examiner)
  • Who Really Pays for Roads? (Buffalo Rising)
  • What Ever Happened to San Francisco’s Performance-Based Parking? (GGW)
  • One Pedestrian Advocate Celebrates Potholes (Grist)
  • How Parking Spaces Define Cities – a Graphic Comparison (Old Urbanist)
  • China Daily, China’s English Newspaper, Calls for National Bicycle Infrastructure
  • Facebook Promotes Bicycle Commuting for Employees (Patch Palo Alto)