Today’s Headlines
Republican Dysfunction, Exhibit A: Highways (Politico) Nope, More Drilling Won’t Bring Back $2.50 a Gallon Gas (WaPo) Highway Bill Inches Forward, Reid Fills Amendment Tree Again (Hill) “Project Streamlining” Could Derail Transportation Bill (Trans. Issues Daily) Bruce Katz: Better Economic Structure Will Save Cities (Wired) A Graphical Look at the Slowing Growth of Car Travel … Continued
By
Ben Goldman
8:55 AM EST on March 2, 2012
- Republican Dysfunction, Exhibit A: Highways (Politico)
- Nope, More Drilling Won’t Bring Back $2.50 a Gallon Gas (WaPo)
- Highway Bill Inches Forward, Reid Fills Amendment Tree Again (Hill)
- “Project Streamlining” Could Derail Transportation Bill (Trans. Issues Daily)
- Bruce Katz: Better Economic Structure Will Save Cities (Wired)
- A Graphical Look at the Slowing Growth of Car Travel (Atlantic Cities)
- Transformative Investments, Chicago-Style (New Repubic)
- Nominate the Best and Worst Transportation Projects (Sierra Club)
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