Today’s Headlines
D.C. Metro Takes Over Silver Line, Preps for Summer Opening (WaPo) House GOP Turns to Postal Service to Shore Up Transportation Funding — Yes, Really (Bloomberg) Roll Call: Raising Funds Through Interstate Tolling Isn’t a Bad Idea Senate Commerce Committee to Take Up Transpo Bill June 3 (The Hill) Atlanta Bolsters MARTA Service to Airport … Continued
By
Katie Pearce
8:57 AM EDT on May 28, 2014
- D.C. Metro Takes Over Silver Line, Preps for Summer Opening (WaPo)
- House GOP Turns to Postal Service to Shore Up Transportation Funding — Yes, Really (Bloomberg)
- Roll Call: Raising Funds Through Interstate Tolling Isn’t a Bad Idea
- Senate Commerce Committee to Take Up Transpo Bill June 3 (The Hill)
- Atlanta Bolsters MARTA Service to Airport (Online Athens)
- San Diego Connects Neighborhoods With Seven-Mile Bike Loop (KPBS)
- Feds Give NJ Transit, PATH $235M for Sandy Damage (Asbury Park Press)
- Why Did America Build, Then Throw Away, Its Urban Streetcars? (Governing)
- Minneapolis Plants Seeds for a Lively Downtown (NYT)
- Arlington Offers National Model of TOD (Mobility Lab)
- West Palm Beach Studies Walkability with Jeff Speck (CBS 12)
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