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Tracking House Debate Over FY11 Budget Cuts: TIGER, HSR On Chopping Block (T4America) Florida Gov. Would Rather Pay for Roads Than a 90% Paid-For High-Speed Rail Line (NBC) LaHood, Florida Lawmakers Look for a Way Around Scott’s Decision (CBS, Transpo Nation) New York and California to Florida: You Eatin’ That? (The Hill, LAT) The Administration’s … Continued

By Tanya Snyder

9:19 AM EST on February 17, 2011

Tracking House Debate Over FY11 Budget Cuts: TIGER, HSR On Chopping Block (T4America)
Florida Gov. Would Rather Pay for Roads Than a 90% Paid-For High-Speed Rail Line (NBC)
LaHood, Florida Lawmakers Look for a Way Around Scott’s Decision (CBS, Transpo Nation)
New York and California to Florida: You Eatin’ That? (The Hill, LAT)
The Administration’s Six-Year Transportation Proposal, in Detail (Transport Politic)
Will Obama’s Transportation Proposal Die Without a Gas Tax Increase? (The Hill)
House Transpo Committee Passes FAA Authorization; Next Up: Surface Transpo (T&I)
LaHood Lashes Out Against High-Speed Rail Detractors (FastLane)
More on the Bus Versus Rail Debate (Cyclelicio.us)
Greyhound, Amtrak Cuts Result in Declining Rural Access to Intercity Public Transportation (Reuters)
LA Gets a Complete-Streets Makeover (Good)

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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