Today’s Headlines
Transportation Bills Getting a Tune-Up During Recess This Week (Politico) Just How Bad is It? T4A Lays Out the Worst of It DC Lobbyists Not Confident Either House or Senate Transportation Bill Will Pass (Hill) Illinois Congressmen: Mass Transit Will Take Hit Under House Bill (Chicago Tribune) Ohio Congressmen: House Bill Would Stop Desperately Needed … Continued
9:00 AM EST on February 22, 2012
- Transportation Bills Getting a Tune-Up During Recess This Week (Politico)
- Just How Bad is It? T4A Lays Out the Worst of It
- DC Lobbyists Not Confident Either House or Senate Transportation Bill Will Pass (Hill)
- Illinois Congressmen: Mass Transit Will Take Hit Under House Bill (Chicago Tribune)
- Ohio Congressmen: House Bill Would Stop Desperately Needed Work (Dayton Daily)
- Alliance for Biking & Walking Launches OpenStreetsProject.org
- Center For American Progress Wants to Put Big Oil Subsidies to Work
- Capital Bikeshare May (Finally) Come to the Mall (WaPo)
- How and Why Google Is Transforming American Mass Transit (Xconomy)
- Florida Senate Supported Tolling, Now Wants All Funds Back in Tallahassee (TampaBayTimes)
- Chicago Gets $7.3 Million for Bus Rapid Transit (WBEZ)
- Solar-Powered Bicycles Coming to India (Daiji World)
- TX Driver Drives Through Cyclists, Gets Arrested, “Didn’t Realize” They Were Cops (Eagle)
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