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Today’s Headlines

LaHood says he has yet to endorse Senate Dems’ $2B transit aid bill: “We need to look at how we pay for that” (WNYC) A separate, wide-ranging interview with LaHood, on everything from bike funding to fuel-efficiency rules (NPR) U.S. metro areas scratch the feds’ back, the feds scratch theirs? How one Arizona pitch could … Continued

By Elana Schor

7:55 AM EDT on May 28, 2010

LaHood says he has yet to endorse Senate Dems’ $2B transit aid bill: “We need to look at how we pay for that” (WNYC)
A separate, wide-ranging interview with LaHood, on everything from bike funding to fuel-efficiency rules (NPR)
U.S. metro areas scratch the feds’ back, the feds scratch theirs? How one Arizona pitch could set the stage for a new federal transportation financing framework (TNR’s The Avenue)
Oberstar strikes a compromise with Illinois lawmakers over fixing the transportation funding disparity in February’s jobs bill (Crain’s)
EPA warns Arizona that its federal transport funds could be at risk if statewide air quality isn’t improved (PHX Biz Jrnl)
U.S. DOT sends about $80 million in high-speed rail grants to FL, CA, NY, WI, NM (FRA Press)
On-the-scene coverage of the EXPO transit convention, where rail was high on the agenda (Streetsblog LA)
Michigan transportation advocacy groups protest state’s move to cut road repair funds as a tactic to avoid losing federal construction dollars (Citizen-Patriot)
Wisconsin state rep seeks to ban bike boxes, which he chalks up to “liberal extremists” (WI St. Jrnl)