Today’s Headlines
Poll Shows Support for Banning Drivers From Using Cellphones (The Hill) Transportation Money to Be Scarce in 2012, Sen. Mark Warner (D-VA) Pessimistic (WTOP) Five Communities Recognized for Smart Growth Achievements (ThomasNet) More Congressional Outrage on High-Speed Rail (Transpo Nation) DC Is Oregon-Based United Streetcar‘s Newest Client (WBJ) In Chicago, Some Find Transit Fares Linked … Continued
By
Ben Goldman
8:54 AM EST on December 16, 2011
- Poll Shows Support for Banning Drivers From Using Cellphones (The Hill)
- Transportation Money to Be Scarce in 2012, Sen. Mark Warner (D-VA) Pessimistic (WTOP)
- Five Communities Recognized for Smart Growth Achievements (ThomasNet)
- More Congressional Outrage on High-Speed Rail (Transpo Nation)
- DC Is Oregon-Based United Streetcar‘s Newest Client (WBJ)
- In Chicago, Some Find Transit Fares Linked to School Attendance (WBEZ)
- Also In Chicago, Mayor & Gov Hope Bikes Fill Transit’s Missing Link (Tribune)
- DC Metro Gives Congress Six Days to Act on Federal Transit Benefits (Examiner)
- Transport Geeks + Software Developers + Planners = TranspoCamp Montreal ’11 (Gazette)
- NRDC’s Rob Perks Explains Why Raising the Gas Tax Makes (Dollars and) Sense
- …And Hybrids Aren’t Why Gas Tax Revenue Is Declining, Either (Publicola)
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