Today's Headlines
Today’s Headlines
By Tanya Snyder
- ULI Report: Disintegrating Infrastructure Will Build Public Support for a Gas Tax Hike (WaPo)
- LaHood: We'll Pass a Transpo Bill This Year Because It Will Create Jobs (Businessweek)
- That Abandoned House Bringing Down Your Neighborhood Might Be Owned by HUD (WaPo)
- NE, UT Governors Face Pressure to Earmark Sales Tax Dollars for Highways (World Herald, SLTribune)
- High-Speed Rail in California: Just Executive-Branch Pork? (ABC News 10)
- Hating on Amtrak Seems to Be Becoming a National Pasttime (LAT)
- Despite Stunning Success, Bixi is Nearly Bankrupt (Montreal Gazette)
- New Jersey Should Fix Roads and Bridges First, Not Expand Them (Daily Record)
- Bike League Partners with AAA to Educate Motorists and Cyclists to Avoid Crashes
- Minneapolis Considers Vanity Plates, Mini-Bonds to Close Funding Shortfall (Star Tribune)
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