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Today’s Headlines

LaHood says a nationwide network of bike trails could be possible (NPR) Kerry, Graham, Lieberman meeting tonight to try to salvage Senate climate legislation (Globe) Forbes names its top 10 “cities in free fall” — several of which are noted sprawl havens Pennsylvania report sees a future for conventional rail in the state, but not … Continued

By Elana Schor

7:56 AM EDT on April 27, 2010

LaHood says a nationwide network of bike trails could be possible (NPR)
Kerry, Graham, Lieberman meeting tonight to try to salvage Senate climate legislation (Globe)
Forbes names its top 10 “cities in free fall” — several of which are noted sprawl havens
Pennsylvania report sees a future for conventional rail in the state, but not for mag-lev (Post-Gazette)
L.A. port wins federal award for its clean truck program (NRDC Blog)
U.S. DOT’s statistics arm to begin tracking freight rail yields (Prog. RR’ing)
Nissan reports buyers have reserved 20% of their initial run of Leaf electric cars …(LAT)
… as the company teams with GE to offer “smart” charging for future vehicles (CNET)
The American real-estate boom and bust, complete with sprawl concerns, is starting to play out in China (LAT)