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Senate Could Consider FAA Reauthorization This Week (Surface Transpo Is Next) (AviationNews) And The House Will Start Acting On FAA Next Week (T&I Committee) In Absence of Federal Action, States Are Beginning to Test VMT Fee Switch (Infrastructurist) Carpooling Went the Way of Hairspray and Stirrup Pants After the Eighties (NYT) Counterproductive Land Use Regulations … Continued

By Tanya Snyder

8:41 AM EST on February 1, 2011

Senate Could Consider FAA Reauthorization This Week (Surface Transpo Is Next) (AviationNews)
And The House Will Start Acting On FAA Next Week (T&I Committee)
In Absence of Federal Action, States Are Beginning to Test VMT Fee Switch (Infrastructurist)
Carpooling Went the Way of Hairspray and Stirrup Pants After the Eighties (NYT)
Counterproductive Land Use Regulations Are Causing Sprawl in Washington State (Sightline Daily)
With Parking $1,000 a Spot, Can Dallas Transit Handle Super Bowl Fans? (Dallas Morning News)
Obama Conflated Gray Infrastructure (Bridges and Rail) With Green (Telecom) at SOTU (Nat Journal)
Much of the Country Urged to “Stay Off the Roads” During Winter Storm (KOCO)
Is It Too Much for DC Metro to Ask for Some Cash When It Bails Out VA and MD Transit? (DCist)
Historic Preservationists Feeling the Streetcar Love in DC (City Paper)
Urban Planning Prof Says the Country Must Fund Transit, Rezone Cities (The Shoshin Project)

http://www.aviationnews.net/?do=headline&news_ID=187839

Tanya Snyder

Tanya became Streetsblog's Capitol Hill editor in September 2010 after covering Congress for Pacifica Radios Washington bureau and for public radio stations around the country. She lives car-free in a transit-oriented and bike-friendly neighborhood of Washington, DC.

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