Posts tagged Barbara Boxer
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Breakfast links: What took so long?
Federal funding, finally; The customer comes first; Shifting demographics in DC; Bus lane support; Locked up in Lorton; Purple line property rights; Seriously, no parking. Keep reading…
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Democrats grudgingly approve a transportation extension bill with a risky timeline
On Tuesday, during the one-hour debate period over the House proposal to extend transportation funding through May 31, lawmaker after lawmaker stood up to condemn the bill. America needs a long-term transportation bill, they said. A short-term stopgap only creates more uncertainty. And then they voted for it. More Democrats than Republicans voted for it, in fact, despite… Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: State the obvious
Did this sign reduce automobile crashes?; The Donald Trump show; Too much affordable housing?; Few changes for Height Act; Is the NCPC wrong?; Fight over Ten Mile Creek; Bethesda bikeshare stations almost ready; DC Brau triples output; Unions will build soccer stadium; And…. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Paying for transportation
Agreement on transpo bill; No BRT soon; DC would not be alone; How to fix parking?; Cities grow; What about health care?; And…. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: It will grow
Columbia Pike will change; What’s up in northern Maryland; Streetcar will move ahead?; Gray for campaign finance reform; Lots waiting for charters; Watch David talk Metro; Will Boxer cave?; Waters rising in Delmarva. Keep reading…
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Bipartisanship brings zilch for bike-ped in Senate outline
Correction: This article, originally posted on Streetsblog yesterday, reported yesterday that the outline of the Senate bill appeared not to preserve dedicated funding for bicycle and pedestrian programs. It has come to Streetsblog’s attention that the complete draft of the bill will include a hard commitment to bike-ped programs. Senate staff tells Streetsbog… Keep reading…
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Senate committee backs infrastructure, but not bike lanes
“We need to take care of this sooner than later,” Senator. Barbara Boxer said yesterday morning in reference to a surface transportation reauthorization. “We can’t keep doing extension after extension.” Before the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee even has all its members named (that should happen in the next day or so, according… Keep reading…
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Dinner links: Skyscrapers and Oklahomans
And the best employer to commute to is…; Height limit debate of the day; Just under the wire; Senators preemptively reject reform; Let’s rotate fiscal conservatives through the Transportation Committee to educate them; And…. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Nothing in life is free
Germantown parking district; Valet park for class?; Not so brotherly on TV; “Panhandling meters”; Dupont row house saved!; You get what you pay for, but safer anyway; The unusual vs. the mundane; Federal safety grants?. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: People creating neat charts and graphs
Baltimore 15-minute map; Why people are driving less; A hopelessly sprawly exurb and a somewhat walkable one; Stop paving over your front yard; Should DC hybrid drivers be able to use VA HOV lanes?; Mixed-use federal buildings?; National Harbor says reroute is for safety; Boxer might sell out good transportation again. Keep reading…