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LaHood puts his health-reformer hat on for the administration .. (Tribune) … days after making a surprise appearance at the National Bike Summit (Streetsblog SF) Oberstar supports House ban on for-profit earmarks — but he doesn’t consider the transportation bill’s “special projects” to be earmarks (The Hill) Could San Francisco become a model for transit … Continued

By Elana Schor

7:52 AM EDT on March 15, 2010

LaHood puts his health-reformer hat on for the administration .. (Tribune)
… days after making a surprise appearance at the National Bike Summit (Streetsblog SF)
Oberstar supports House ban on for-profit earmarks — but he doesn’t consider the transportation bill’s “special projects” to be earmarks (The Hill)
Could San Francisco become a model for transit financing through local fuel fees? (NYT)
Rep. Mica, the House infrastructure committee’s top Republican, makes the case against executive-branch earmarking (The Hill)
D.C.’s transit agency faces a make-or-break debate over how to close its budget gap (WaPo)
GM planning to follow the Volt with a range of purely electric, engine-less vehicles (AllCarsElectric)
Maryland outlines its request for federal street cleanup aid following last month’s Snowmageddon (Balt. Sun)
One Dallas-area skeptic of transit-oriented development outlines his frustrations (Morn News)
New York members of Congress meet with LaHood on bringing high-speed rail money upstate (WKTV)

Elana Schor

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