Today’s Headlines
Finance Committee Finds $9.6 Billion for Senate Transportation Bill (Hill) House Transportation Bill Emerges From a Beating in Committee (WaPo) GOP Transportation Bill Lurches Forward, But Where’s the Money? (Politico) Angry About the House Transportation Bill? T4America Wants You! Should It Take Decades to Build a Subway? How to Fix Our Transit System (Salon) GOP … Continued
8:58 AM EST on February 8, 2012
- Finance Committee Finds $9.6 Billion for Senate Transportation Bill (Hill)
- House Transportation Bill Emerges From a Beating in Committee (WaPo)
- GOP Transportation Bill Lurches Forward, But Where’s the Money? (Politico)
- Angry About the House Transportation Bill? T4America Wants You!
- Should It Take Decades to Build a Subway? How to Fix Our Transit System (Salon)
- GOP Plan to Cut Reagan’s Penny for Transit Angers New Jersey (Star-Ledger, Hudson Reporter)
- Walking Is Less Risky These Days In Australia (Lifehacker)
- Pittsburgh, Like Many American ‘Shrinking’ Cities, Is Actually Expanding (Switchboard)
- Congestion Charge Leads to 37% Decrease in Air Pollution Over Milan, Italy in 2 Days (Treehugger)
- Survey Says: 60% of Americans Want Walkability Over a Big House (Good)
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