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Today’s Headlines

Funding Rejected by GOP Governors Keeps Obama’s HSR Plans on Track (Hill) LaHood: Passage of Transportation Bill Critical to Job Creation (Journal Star) DOT Bans Use of Hand-Held Devices for Commercial Drivers (Landline) Reviving the Urbanized, Habitable Bridge (Next American City) Would Fewer But Heavier Trucks Be Safer and More Fuel Efficient? (FOX) The Hummer … Continued

By Kathryn Reid Moore

8:50 AM EST on November 28, 2011

Funding Rejected by GOP Governors Keeps Obama’s HSR Plans on Track (Hill)
LaHood: Passage of Transportation Bill Critical to Job Creation (Journal Star)
DOT Bans Use of Hand-Held Devices for Commercial Drivers (Landline)
Reviving the Urbanized, Habitable Bridge (Next American City)
Would Fewer But Heavier Trucks Be Safer and More Fuel Efficient? (FOX)
The Hummer Returns!? Could Obama’s Fuel Standards Bring Back the SUV? (TreeHugger)
The Fringe Suburb is Dead (NYTimes)
Looking Back on 2011 for Bikes Makes Grist Wheely Wheely Thankful
Study: Answer to California’s Energy Crisis is Easy! E-Cars and More Power Plants! (Cyclelicious)
Innovative Polish Subway Trains Recycle Kinetic Energy (Earth & Industry)
Put to a Vote, Controversial $5.5 Billion Rail Project Wins in Germany (BostonGlobe)