Today’s Headlines
LaHood Promises Investigation Into Chevy Volt Fires, Assures Safety, Denies Cover-Up (Bloomberg) Members of Congress Form Transportation Security Caucus (The Hill) Retailers –Even Wholesale Clubs — Find Transit Access Is “Absolutely a Requirement” (Globest) VA Gov. Promises Robust Transpo Investment (The Better to Widen Highways With, My Dear) (WaPo) All GOP Ideas For the Missing $12 … Continued
By
Tanya Snyder
8:39 AM EST on December 9, 2011
- LaHood Promises Investigation Into Chevy Volt Fires, Assures Safety, Denies Cover-Up (Bloomberg)
- Members of Congress Form Transportation Security Caucus (The Hill)
- Retailers –Even Wholesale Clubs — Find Transit Access Is “Absolutely a Requirement” (Globest)
- VA Gov. Promises Robust Transpo Investment (The Better to Widen Highways With, My Dear) (WaPo)
- All GOP Ideas For the Missing $12 Billion Would Damage the Environment (Politico)
- Michigan Congressman: Detroit Must Build Transit to Bring Economic Growth (Freep)
- Is DC Trying to Keep Motorcoaches Out of the City (Washington City Paper)
- Brookings Suggests Ways to Facilitate Public-Private Partnerships
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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