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The Obama administration has received applications worth $57 billion for the stimulus law’s $1.5 billion TIGER grant program, designed to focus on multi-modal projects (JOC) LaHood jabs at the media after a critical piece on road stimulus spending … (Dallas M-N) … and announces plans to go to Copenhagen for Chicago’s 2016 Olympics bid (WH … Continued

By Elana Schor

7:48 AM EDT on September 29, 2009

The Obama administration has received applications worth $57 billion for the stimulus law’s $1.5 billion TIGER grant program, designed to focus on multi-modal projects (JOC)
LaHood jabs at the media after a critical piece on road stimulus spending … (Dallas M-N)
… and announces plans to go to Copenhagen for Chicago’s 2016 Olympics bid (WH Press)
A call to arms from one editorial board: Let’s start taking transportation reform seriously! (Free Press)
Trucking industry wants to be exempted from any congressional move to ban texting while driving (NYT)
Infrastructure policy becomes attack-ad fodder in VA’s gubernatorial race (WaPo)
Recapping the congressional machinations over the next federal transportation bill (AJC)
16 years of inaction have passed, and the U.S. still lacks the stones to start talking about a higher gas tax (Good)

Elana Schor

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