A rallying cry for Congress to get behind federal aid for L.A.'s 30/10 transit plan (HuffPost)
While Virginia seeks emergency aid from the feds for its snow-removal costs, the state DOT finds room in "emergency" funds to reopen shuttered highway rest stops (McDonnell Press)
Senate approves Feingold's proposal to cancel transport earmarks that go unspent after a decade (GovExec)
Could high-speed rail foster new suburban sprawl? (Wired)
Another redirected Nevada transportation earmark: $45 million for a defunct "maglev" train will now go towards an airport road project (LV Sun)
Missouri's state DOT, facing a budget crunch, forced to take a "fix-it-first" approach rather than adding new highway lanes (Daily Guide)
Idaho planners tackle the linguistic choice between "transit" and "public transportation" (Boise Weekly)
“The contractors want the money, the politicians want to be able to claim credit for
projects, and the engineers want to complete every project that was ever
represented by a dotted line on a map -- no matter how long ago it was
conceived nor how the perceived need has changed.”
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