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New poll finds 83 percent of respondents supporting more federal funding for high-speed rail and transit (HNTB Press via @beyondDC) Investor Carl Icahn is forming a consortium to go after a share of the high-speed rail pie (AP) Federal transportation safety regulators call for national crash-resistance standards for transit cars (Bloomberg) How blue is your … Continued

By Elana Schor

7:52 AM EST on February 19, 2010

New poll finds 83 percent of respondents supporting more federal funding for high-speed rail and transit (HNTB Press via @beyondDC)
Investor Carl Icahn is forming a consortium to go after a share of the high-speed rail pie (AP)
Federal transportation safety regulators call for national crash-resistance standards for transit cars (Bloomberg)
How blue is your city? One artist color-codes local commuting patterns (Infrastructurist)
Siemens expands its plans to build new high-speed rail production facilities in California — if it wins a bid to help the state construct bullet trains (AP)
Transit plans getting a newly warm welcome in Indiana (Indy Star)
Speaking of Indiana, it’s the next stop on LaHood’s TIGER stimulus tour (Inside IN Business)
And on the lighter side, LaHood helps MTV stars court a basketball date with Obama (PJ Star)