Today’s Headlines

Despite LaHood’s much-touted non-binding policy paper, complete streets policies may take time to catch on in CA (Streetsblog SF)

Nissan to offer its all-electric Leaf model for about $25k (WaPo)

Would the gas tax being talked about for the Senate’s new climate change bill actually work? (MoJo Blog)

New Jersey transit riders plan to protest looming fare hikes by driving en masse on April 1 (NJ.com)

Colorado eyeing two high-speed rail links of its own (D. Post, AP)

LaHood seeks scientific help researching the "sudden acceleration" plaguing Toyota vehicles … (Bloomberg)

… after returning home to Illinois to address the slim options on the table for closing the federal transportation funding gap (Daily Herald)

David Brooks inadvertently makes the case for congestion pricing (Yglesias)

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By Angie Schmitt | Jan 21, 2015

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