Today’s Headlines
Obama Calls on Congress to Pass Transportation Bill (NY Daily News, YouTube) Democrats Are Getting Ready to Fight Over Highway Funding (WaPo) Roadblocks the Transportation Extension Could Run Into (Transpo Issues Daily) Big Business and Big Labor Agree: US Needs Infrastructure Spending (Barron’s) Cantor’s “Compromise” on Infrastructure Funding? Eliminate Bike/Ped. (The Hill, NewsMax) Former NJ DOT … Continued
8:38 AM EDT on September 6, 2011
- Obama Calls on Congress to Pass Transportation Bill (NY Daily News, YouTube)
- Democrats Are Getting Ready to Fight Over Highway Funding (WaPo)
- Roadblocks the Transportation Extension Could Run Into (Transpo Issues Daily)
- Big Business and Big Labor Agree: US Needs Infrastructure Spending (Barron’s)
- Cantor’s “Compromise” on Infrastructure Funding? Eliminate Bike/Ped. (The Hill, NewsMax)
- Former NJ DOT Commissioner: “Let’s Show Our Exceptionalism, Not Just Talk About It” (Star Ledger)
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Judge Rules Arizona’s Transit Funding Cuts Would Violate Federal Law (Chron)
- Why Towns With Good Transit Options Are Recovering Faster From the Recession (TreeHugger)
- Bike Share Booming in Boston After Only One Month (Boston Globe)
- Report: Rural Roads Are the Most Dangerous, Rumble Strips Would Help (Seattle Today)
- Build It and They Will Drive: One Professor’s Research in a Video (Infrastructurist)
- Kaid Benfield Shares a Fun Video on Driving While Texting (NRDC, Zoomsafer)
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