Today’s Headlines
In Budget Rollout, Obama Proposes Single Transportation Trust Fund (Politico) Americans Want Transportation, Don’t Want to Pay For It (WaPo) GOP Eyes Big Cuts to EPA; Dems Consider Effort “Reckless” (Politico, The Hill) Obama Pushes Clean Energy Spending, Fewer Tax Breaks for Big Oil (The Hill) How Will Electric Car Owners Pay for Roads? (Infrastructurist) … Continued
By
Adam Voiland
8:47 AM EST on February 14, 2011
- In Budget Rollout, Obama Proposes Single Transportation Trust Fund (Politico)
- Americans Want Transportation, Don’t Want to Pay For It (WaPo)
- GOP Eyes Big Cuts to EPA; Dems Consider Effort “Reckless” (Politico, The Hill)
- Obama Pushes Clean Energy Spending, Fewer Tax Breaks for Big Oil (The Hill)
- How Will Electric Car Owners Pay for Roads? (Infrastructurist)
- Mapquest Rolls Out Transit Directions (Transpo Nation)
- Streetcar Boom Takes Cities Back to the Future (NPR)
- Smart Growth: A Stupid Term? (The Naked City)
- How Low Can Speed Limits Go? (Treehugger)
- More Budget Trouble For DC Metro Looms (WaPo)
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