Today’s Headlines
Senators Schedule Hearing for Six-Year Transportation Bill After May 31 Deadline (The Hill) GOP Senator: “I’ll Be Stunned” If Republicans Deal With Highway Trust Fund “Responsibly” (The Hill) Fight for Federal Transportation Funding “Hardened” By Amtrak Crash (The Hill) Congress Isn’t Raising the Gas Tax But These States Did (National Journal) Will Monmouth County, NJ, “Put a … Continued
8:57 AM EDT on May 14, 2015
- Senators Schedule Hearing for Six-Year Transportation Bill After May 31 Deadline (The Hill)
- GOP Senator: “I’ll Be Stunned” If Republicans Deal With Highway Trust Fund “Responsibly” (The Hill)
- Fight for Federal Transportation Funding “Hardened” By Amtrak Crash (The Hill)
- Congress Isn’t Raising the Gas Tax But These States Did (National Journal)
- Will Monmouth County, NJ, “Put a Knife Through” Complete Streets Goals? (NJ Bike & Walk Coalition)
- Black Transit Riders in Mpls Spend 160 More Hours Per Year Commuting Than White Drivers (Star Trib)
- Rider to State Budget Could Kill Texas Private High-Speed Rail Plans (Dallas Business Journal)
- Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Wants to Fix Louisville’s Air Problems
Angie is a Cleveland-based writer with a background in planning and newspaper reporting. She has been writing about cities for Streetsblog for six years.
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