Today’s Headlines
LaHood, DOT Keep Focus on Distracted Driving With Summit (WaPo) Meanwhile, New Proposal Would Ban Certain Truck Drivers from Texting (AP) Freight Trains: A Thorn in Obama’s High-Speed Rail Plan (WSJ) Bike-Sharing Hits the Big Time in DC with CaBi (WaPo, NYT, GGW) Christie Eyes Raiding Hudson River Rail Tunnel Funds for Other Projects (NJ.com) … Continued
By
Adam Voiland
9:10 AM EDT on September 21, 2010
- LaHood, DOT Keep Focus on Distracted Driving With Summit (WaPo)
- Meanwhile, New Proposal Would Ban Certain Truck Drivers from Texting (AP)
- Freight Trains: A Thorn in Obama’s High-Speed Rail Plan (WSJ)
- Bike-Sharing Hits the Big Time in DC with CaBi (WaPo, NYT, GGW)
- Christie Eyes Raiding Hudson River Rail Tunnel Funds for Other Projects (NJ.com)
- What’s More Stressful: Driving to Work or Riding the Bus? (Infrastructurist)
- Will Obama’s Infrastructure Pitch Strike Out With Swing Voters? (Transpo Nation)
- Boston Globe: Smart Growth Not Just an Environmental Fad
- California Lawmakers Want To Make Commutes Shorter (Capitol Weekly)
- Introducing Baltimore’s CharmCard (Baltimore Sun)
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