Today’s Headlines
Bipartisan Twitter Fest This Week Turns Up Heat for Transportation Bill (WaPo) As House Readies for Bill, Foxx Set to Testify Wednesday (Transport Topics) How Rep. Delaney Won Support for an “Out-of-the Box” Funding Idea (WaPo) Chicago Gets $120M From Feds for O’Hare Line (Sun Times) House Amtrak Bill Would Give More Autonomy to NE … Continued
By
Katie Pearce
9:01 AM EST on February 9, 2015
- Bipartisan Twitter Fest This Week Turns Up Heat for Transportation Bill (WaPo)
- As House Readies for Bill, Foxx Set to Testify Wednesday (Transport Topics)
- How Rep. Delaney Won Support for an “Out-of-the Box” Funding Idea (WaPo)
- Chicago Gets $120M From Feds for O’Hare Line (Sun Times)
- House Amtrak Bill Would Give More Autonomy to NE Corridor (Philly Inquirer)
- Poll: Nearly 70 Percent of Americans Oppose a Federal Gas Tax Hike (The Hill)
- Is It a Problem That America’s “Train Czar” Doesn’t Have Much Rail Experience? (Pop Mechanics)
- Twin Cities Light Rail Faces More Delay as Feds Get Involved (Minn/St. Paul Biz Journal)
- Two Dallas Sites Considered for High-Speed Rail Station (Dallas Biz Journal)
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