Today’s Headlines

By Elana Schor
Feb 11, 2010

How Florida’s congressional delegation helped make its high-speed rail award happen (HuffPost)

Michael Lindenberger responds to this week’s online back-and-forth over taxing gas v. VMT (Morn News)

Senate jobs bill — with a highway trust fund extension but no TIGER money — expected to be delayed for 10 more days (WSJ)

Chinese high-speed rail proving popular enough to scare airlines into fare cuts (Bloomberg)

Steven Pearlstein on what blizzards can teach us about local governance (WashPost)

Indiana transit planners propose a massive new public-private partnership including rail, buses, and new toll roads (Indy Star)

Vancouver Olympics officials bring in 99 new transit buses after California-based models couldn’t handle step mountain-grade travel (Van. Sun)

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