Today’s Headlines
Congress Gets Its Business Done Only After Doing Lots of Something Else (WaPo) Did You Think We Could Avoid a Tenth Extension? (It’s Only a Week Long.) (Hill) Transportation Issues Daily’s Great Cheat Sheet on MAP-21, Parts 1 and 2 The Transport Politic’s Yonah Freemark Adds His Voice to the “Status Quo” Chorus Transpo Bill … Continued
By
Ben Goldman
8:57 AM EDT on July 2, 2012
- Congress Gets Its Business Done Only After Doing Lots of Something Else (WaPo)
- Did You Think We Could Avoid a Tenth Extension? (It’s Only a Week Long.) (Hill)
- Transportation Issues Daily’s Great Cheat Sheet on MAP-21, Parts 1 and 2
- The Transport Politic’s Yonah Freemark Adds His Voice to the “Status Quo” Chorus
- Transpo Bill Fallout Means Agony of Defeat for Cyclists (BikeBiz)
- Upcoming Vote on California HSR Is Far From Foregone Conclusion (SFChron)
- Fact: Central Cities Are Growing Faster Than Suburbs (NRDC)
- What Does a Shell Oil Exec Add to a Panel on Smart Transportation? (The Atlantic)
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