Today’s Headlines
- LaHood says Obama administration should replicate the first stimulus law's ethics limits for its next economic recovery legislation (AP)
- House passes massive spending bill that includes big transportation policy budget moves (AP)
- Members of Congress pushing to make more transit networks wired for cell service (The Hill)
- Washington D.C.'s transit authority heading for management shakeup after castigation on Capitol Hill (WashPost)
- New Jersey's new governor is on the spot for deciding to expand transportation bonding (Star-Ledger)
- Providence, RI, eyes its own streetcar network with federal aid ... (Prov Biz News)
- ... as does Charlotte, NC (Observer)
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