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The Obama administration is prepared to unveil its plan to set long-absent national transit safety standards (WashPost) Transportation construction companies say the stimulus isn’t helping their employment picture, call for a higher gas tax and an eventual transition to a VMT tax (Post-Gazette) Specter wants the federal government to stay out of the debate over … Continued

By Elana Schor

7:49 AM EST on November 16, 2009

The Obama administration is prepared to unveil its plan to set long-absent national transit safety standards (WashPost)
Transportation construction companies say the stimulus isn’t helping their employment picture, call for a higher gas tax and an eventual transition to a VMT tax (Post-Gazette)
Specter wants the federal government to stay out of the debate over two high-profile tolling proposals in his home state of Pennsylvania (The Reporter)
Goldman Sachs reads the writing on wall, predicts an infrastructure stimulus early next year (Zero Hedge)
LaHood gives a boost to planners of a major road-widening project in his home state … (Daily Herald)
… as a bipartisan group of Virginia lawmakers presses him for action on a road-widening project near a paper mill that’s soon to close down (Tidewater News)
Northeastern states form a working group to increase their chances at getting federal high-speed rail aid (Boston Herald)

Elana Schor

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