TN MOVING STORIES: D.C.'s 'Million Dollar Bus Stop' Under Review, Texas's Transpo Funding Woes, DIY Airstrip Lights
Top stories on TN:
New Yorkers: Meet Your Bike Share Station Map (link)
Feds Set Uniform Standards For Sandy Rebuilding (link)
New Law Makes Distracted Driving a Primary Offense in Virginia (link)
The Tradition Of Naming Tunneling Machines (link)
The FAA has been using 30-year-old data on aircraft collisions to justify the cost of operating control towers at small airports -- even though accident rates have improved significantly over that time. (AP)
DC's transit system is reviewing what led to its 'million dollar bus stop.' (Washington Post)
Texting, drinking: these behaviors are not beneficial to the pedestrian experience. (Virginia Public Radio)
Chicago's transit system wants cell phone service in its subways. (WBEZ)
Transportation funding challenges in Texas: "although gas tax revenue has failed to keep pace with either inflation or the state’s explosive growth since the early 1990s, TxDOT has been in a building boom over the past 10 years, its budget roughly doubling to the more than $20 billion proposed for 2014-15." (American Statesman)
A well-known NYC environmentalist was paid by Fresh Direct to help sell their move to the Bronx. (New York Times)
The Los Angeles Times rides along with a parking enforcement officer. "I was lucky to have never had an incident of violence."
Residents of a remote town in Peru used bikes, cars and rickshaws to help light up an airstrip so an emergency medical flight could take off. (BBC; video)
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