Today’s Headlines
Shuster Seeks to Head Transpo Committee, Even If Mica Wants to Stick Around (Hill, Nat’l Journal) Whoever It Is, the Next Chair Faces Transpo Funding Quandary (Bloomberg) Center for Transportation Excellence Offers Rundown of Transpo Ballot Measures Transit Advocates Claim 70 Percent Success Rate on Election Day (Hill) The Shifting Transportation Needs of Baby Boomers (AP) … Continued
By
Katie Pearce
8:55 AM EST on November 9, 2012
- Shuster Seeks to Head Transpo Committee, Even If Mica Wants to Stick Around (Hill, Nat’l Journal)
- Whoever It Is, the Next Chair Faces Transpo Funding Quandary (Bloomberg)
- Center for Transportation Excellence Offers Rundown of Transpo Ballot Measures
- Transit Advocates Claim 70 Percent Success Rate on Election Day (Hill)
- The Shifting Transportation Needs of Baby Boomers (AP)
- Transportation Systems Face Big Costs to Beef Up Severe-Weather Defenses (Reuters)
- Virginia Could Move to Performance-Based Transit Funding (Daily Press)
- How an Exurban Office Park Nurtures a “Culture of Public Transit” (Atlantic Cities)
- Some Want Connecticut’s Transpo Boss to Make Better Sell for Bus-Only Corridor (AP)
- Barcelona Could Raise Bike-Share Fees by 116 Percent (TreeHugger)
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