Today’s Headlines
Mica: Transpo Bill Is “70 to 80% Completed” (Hill) Congressional Budget Deal Eliminates Funding for HSR (USA Today) Despite No New Funding for Illinois HSR, Optimism Remains (MyStateLine) LaHood Confident HSR Funding Can Be Authorized in Future (Medill Reports) Transit and TIGER Funding Preserved in Compromise Spending Bill (T4A) Transit Riders Union Gives Detroit Buses … Continued
8:54 AM EST on November 16, 2011
- Mica: Transpo Bill Is “70 to 80% Completed” (Hill)
- Congressional Budget Deal Eliminates Funding for HSR (USA Today)
- Despite No New Funding for Illinois HSR, Optimism Remains (MyStateLine)
- LaHood Confident HSR Funding Can Be Authorized in Future (Medill Reports)
- Transit and TIGER Funding Preserved in Compromise Spending Bill (T4A)
- Transit Riders Union Gives Detroit Buses Failing Grade (HuffPo)
- Federally Expedited Tappan Zee Bridge Excludes Transit, Does ‘Nothing for Commuters’ (TranspoNation)
- Truckers Concerned Over New Political Trend to Consider Fuel Tax Increases (Landline)
- FL DOT Presses on for More Tolling Lanes Rather Than Increasing Gas Tax (Times-Union)
- London Expands ‘Naked Streets’ Concept of No Barriers Between Cars and Peds (GOOD)
- Why One Man Always Votes ‘Bike’ (Connect Savannah)
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