Today’s Headlines
Congress and the White House are Fixing for a Fight on High-Speed Rail Funding (WSJ) LaHood Talks Rail With MD Governor, Says HSR Will Be Developed Piecemeal (Baltimore Sun) Obama Doesn’t Need to Lobby Congress on Rail Investment, The States Will Do It For Him (HuffPo) Conservatives Launch Effort to Defund What Remains of Stimulus … Continued
By
Tanya Snyder
8:22 AM EST on February 10, 2011
- Congress and the White House are Fixing for a Fight on High-Speed Rail Funding (WSJ)
- LaHood Talks Rail With MD Governor, Says HSR Will Be Developed Piecemeal (Baltimore Sun)
- Obama Doesn’t Need to Lobby Congress on Rail Investment, The States Will Do It For Him (HuffPo)
- Conservatives Launch Effort to Defund What Remains of Stimulus Money (The Hill)
- Do You Agree With U.S News & World Report‘s List of Top Ten U.S. Cities for Public Transportation?
- Safety in Numbers: As Bicycle Ridership Goes Up, Crashes Go Down (Bike League)
- Treasury Secretary Geithner Says High-Speed Rail Will Lead to Economic Growth (Treasury Dept.)
- To GOP Senator, Rail Safety Requirements = Unnecessary Regulatory Burden (Journal of Commerce)
- Floridians Hope Administration Rail Plans Bode Well for Miami-Orlando Line (Orlando Sentinel)
- Heritage Foundation: Curb “Wasteful Spending” in Next Budget, Cut Transit, Bike Paths, MPO Funding
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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