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Frustrating fact of the day: The stimulus bill’s edict that “disadvantaged” areas get priority is so poorly crafted that it includes all of Arizona and California (TNR’s The Avenue) Safe Routes to School Partnership releases a new report profiling local successes in child pedestrian safety: Check it out in full (SRtS Press) Mayors of some … Continued

By Elana Schor

7:50 AM EST on December 16, 2009

Frustrating fact of the day: The stimulus bill’s edict that “disadvantaged” areas get priority is so poorly crafted that it includes all of Arizona and California (TNR’s The Avenue)
Safe Routes to School Partnership releases a new report profiling local successes in child pedestrian safety: Check it out in full (SRtS Press)
Mayors of some of the world’s biggest cities, including New York, urge “an ambitious and empowering” climate change agreement in Copenhagen (Bloomberg)
House-Senate transport spending deal includes a $200 million earmark for the Hudson River rail tunnel (Courier-Post)
A look at the challenges in ensuring transit access for seniors (JCOnline)
When will the era of the plug-in hybrid begin? Not for decades at the least, a new report says (NYT Blogs)
Republican gubernatorial hopefuls in Illinois are mostly pro-high speed rail … (AP)
… while in California, the estimated cost of a future bullet-train ride from San Francisco to L.A. just went up (Merc News)

Elana Schor

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