Today’s Headlines
Blumenauer Questions Mica’s Definition of “Historic” (The Hill) A Funding Breakdown of MAP-21 (Transpo Issues Daily) Missing From the Bill: Boosted Tax Break for Mass Transit (Business Insurance) Despite House Instruction, Incentives for Distracted Driving Bans Stayed in Bill (Gannett) LaHood on Why Infrastructure Progress is Easier in China (Foreign Policy) California Bullet Train Passed Assembly, Faces … Continued
By
Katie Pearce
8:31 AM EDT on July 6, 2012
- Blumenauer Questions Mica’s Definition of “Historic” (The Hill)
- A Funding Breakdown of MAP-21 (Transpo Issues Daily)
- Missing From the Bill: Boosted Tax Break for Mass Transit (Business Insurance)
- Despite House Instruction, Incentives for Distracted Driving Bans Stayed in Bill (Gannett)
- LaHood on Why Infrastructure Progress is Easier in China (Foreign Policy)
- California Bullet Train Passed Assembly, Faces Tougher Vote In State Senate Today (Reuters)
- More Than Streetcars at Risk in Chabot’s Cincinnati Proposal (Cincinnati.com)
- Oil Prices Drive Revival of Short-Line Rail in New York (AP)
- NPS Plans to Expand Bike Access in Parks Nationwide (National Parks Traveler)
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