Today's Headlines

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 Snyder

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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