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Early draft of Senate jobs bill emerges: $20B for the highway trust fund and Build America Bond language, but no new funding for TIGER grants (Politico) AASHTO unveils website touting more than 280,000 “highway and transit jobs” created or sustained by the stimulus law’s focus on transportation — Democrats hail the news (EPW Press) In … Continued

By Elana Schor

7:50 AM EST on February 10, 2010

Early draft of Senate jobs bill emerges: $20B for the highway trust fund and Build America Bond language, but no new funding for TIGER grants (Politico)
AASHTO unveils website touting more than 280,000 “highway and transit jobs” created or sustained by the stimulus law’s focus on transportation — Democrats hail the news (EPW Press)
In New Jersey, a push mounts to add a biking and walking path to the state’s federally funded Amtrak bridge reconstruction project (JC Independent)
Toyota, facing a flurry of negative attention from the government, turns to its lobbying army (Politico)
Washington state moves forward with extra vehicle licensing fees to fund transit (P-I Blog)
What a Snowpocalypse can do to urban pedestrian culture … (TheCityFix)
… and to states’ already strapped transportation budgets (WSJ, MD Reporter)

Elana Schor

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