Today’s Headlines
UDSOT Says Public-Private Partnerships Won’t Fill the Funding Gap (LandLine) Feds Give Five States $336.2M For Next-Gen High-Speed Trains (Construction Equipment) Gov’t Would Forfeit $1.3B In Airline Taxes to Save $16.5M On Rural Flights (Bloomberg, NYT) LaHood Exhorts Congress to Skip Vacation Till They Extend the FAA Bill (MSNBC) Landscape Architects Demand a Transpo Bill … Continued
By
Tanya Snyder
8:41 AM EDT on August 4, 2011
- UDSOT Says Public-Private Partnerships Won’t Fill the Funding Gap (LandLine)
- Feds Give Five States $336.2M For Next-Gen High-Speed Trains (Construction Equipment)
- Gov’t Would Forfeit $1.3B In Airline Taxes to Save $16.5M On Rural Flights (Bloomberg, NYT)
- LaHood Exhorts Congress to Skip Vacation Till They Extend the FAA Bill (MSNBC)
- Landscape Architects Demand a Transpo Bill With Complete Streets Provisions (The Dirt)
- San Diego Takes Step Toward Curbing Sprawl; Avocado Farming Supervisor Dissents (KPBS)
- CA Gov. Brown Vetoes Commuter Benefits Act. Blame Lobbyists? (LA Streetsblog, Cyclelicio.us)
- Cash-Strapped Missouri DOT Worries About Impact of Debt Ceiling Deal (Ozarks First)
- Americans Think They’re Pretty Great Drivers, Even Though They Speed and Drive Drunk (RPUS)
- Why Did America Destroy Its Great Cities? (HuffPo)
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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