Today’s Headlines
Republicans Offering Bill on Transportation Funding Today (WaPo, Reuters) Drilling for Highway Revenue Could Face Opposition From Both Sides (T4A) NRDC to Congress: “Don’t Drill and Drive” (Hill) Ranking Three Different Approaches to Transit Funding in Dallas (Atlantic Cities) Transportation Nation Explains Why Your City Might Not Have Car Share Yet Infrastructure and Job Creation … Continued
8:58 AM EST on January 31, 2012
- Republicans Offering Bill on Transportation Funding Today (WaPo, Reuters)
- Drilling for Highway Revenue Could Face Opposition From Both Sides (T4A)
- NRDC to Congress: “Don’t Drill and Drive” (Hill)
- Ranking Three Different Approaches to Transit Funding in Dallas (Atlantic Cities)
- Transportation Nation Explains Why Your City Might Not Have Car Share Yet
- Infrastructure and Job Creation Go Hand in Hand – Sometimes (Brookings Podcast)
- Some Politicians in New Hampshire Want to Ban Sobriety Checkpoints (UnionLeader)
- Why Everybody Loves a Chinatown Bus (WaPo)
- NRDC’s Kaid Benfield Curates a Gallery of Walkability (Switchboard)
- DOT Grants $3.5 Million to Sustainable Transportation Research (OIT)
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