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 … Continued
By
Elana Schor
7:50 AM EST on December 11, 2009
- 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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