Today’s Headlines
Senate Democrats to Push Vote on Infrastructure Funding This Week (CBS) Business, Labor Once Again Come Together for Infrastructure Funding (Hill) More Infrastructure Projects Turning to Private Funding (WaPo) Making the Case for Transit Funding (Seattle Times) LaHood Lauds Amtrak Ridership, Calls Again for HSR (Hill) The Future of Amtrak Is at Stake in 2012 … Continued
8:52 AM EDT on October 24, 2011
- Senate Democrats to Push Vote on Infrastructure Funding This Week (CBS)
- Business, Labor Once Again Come Together for Infrastructure Funding (Hill)
- More Infrastructure Projects Turning to Private Funding (WaPo)
- Making the Case for Transit Funding (Seattle Times)
- LaHood Lauds Amtrak Ridership, Calls Again for HSR (Hill)
- The Future of Amtrak Is at Stake in 2012 Election (Economist)
- Study: $1.2 Trillion Infrastructure Plan Creates 27 Million Jobs In 5 Years (Forbes)
- Pennsylvania Governor Says Transportation Not a Top Priority, Despite Bipartisan Pressure (Post-Gazette)
- When Developers Sprawl, Urbanites Get the Bill (Shoreline Patch)
- Transporting Goods by Tram – It Could Happen (Transport Politic)
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