Today’s Headlines

  • Secret Service motorcade — without the vice president on board — strikes and kills a pedestrian (The Hill)
  • Truckers: "As soon as you say ‘green’, [they] shut down" (Reuters)
  • Pennsylvania Republican leaders urges LaHood to reject state leaders’ plan to toll I-80 (Post-Gazette)
  • For seeking a nuclear- and drilling-heavy climate change bill, Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) gets censured in his home state (Post & Courier)
  • The recent forced closure of a bridge over Lake Champlain in upstate New York? It could be just the beginning of the problem (AP)
  • The Obama administration is taking action to help … the airline industry (AP)
  • A pitch to retool highways with adjacent rail lines and embedded electricity transmission (NYT)
  • Explaining the correlation between the relative pollution of cities and their ability to attract new residents (TNR’s Avenue)

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When it comes to consuming fewer resources to save the environment, Energy Secretary Steven Chu says Americans are a lot like teenagers: they "aren’t acting in a way they should act." (WSJ) Are states that outlaw texting while driving encouraging rule-breaking by posting traffic updates on Twitter? (AP) What’s in Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood’s wallet? […]

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Very bad news for train riders in the northeast: The Obama administration’s first rounds of high-speed rail money are unlikely to help improve Acela service, due to lengthy environmental reviews required by U.S. DOT (Globe) Two disparate takes on the House jobs bill: Does it represent "room for real debate" on a new federal transportation […]

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MARTA’s Top Post Draws San Antonio Transit Chief (Atlanta Biz Chronicle) Ex-Board Member Blasts LaHood for Dropping Ball on Silver Line (WAMU, Bacon’s Rebellion) Farm Bureaus Ask to Halt Building on California High-Speed Rail Project (Merced Sun-Star) Things Look Bleak for Rhode Island’s Public Transit Agency (AP) Gas Tax Can Pay for Toxic Cleanup, Rules […]

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