Today’s Headlines
Editorials: Infrastructure Funding Bill Failed Because GOP Put Millionaires Before Jobs (NYT, FT) Republicans Use Highway Bill to Counter Obama on Infrastructure (Hill) Obama Meets with Transportation Advocates to Discuss Federal Funding for Infrastructure (T4A) Maryland State Senate President Promises to Raise Gas Tax (Baltimore Sun) How Car Commuting Costs – in a Handy Chart (TreeHugger) … Continued
8:47 AM EST on November 7, 2011
- Editorials: Infrastructure Funding Bill Failed Because GOP Put Millionaires Before Jobs (NYT, FT)
- Republicans Use Highway Bill to Counter Obama on Infrastructure (Hill)
- Obama Meets with Transportation Advocates to Discuss Federal Funding for Infrastructure (T4A)
- Maryland State Senate President Promises to Raise Gas Tax (Baltimore Sun)
- How Car Commuting Costs – in a Handy Chart (TreeHugger)
- HSR Costs Soar Due to Project Changes, Not Lack of Study (ThinkProgress)
- FL Drivers Who Text Could Face Same Punitive Damages as DUI (Naples News)
- The Unintended Consequences of Residential Parking Permits (Transpo Nation)
- State Buys Up Tracks in First Real Step Toward Regional Rail in Central Florida (Orlando Sentinel)
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