Today’s Headlines
Governing Asks Six Transportation Policy Questions for 2013 Shuster Sees Compromise for Amtrak Funding (The Hill), and Won’t Rule Out Gas Tax (Bloomberg) Future Amtrak Will Be “More Like a Business and Less Like a Government Agency” (USA Today) EPA Honors Seven Smart Growth Projects (Switchboard) More on Why States Aren’t Using Flex Funds for … Continued
By
Katie Pearce
8:57 AM EST on November 29, 2012
- Governing Asks Six Transportation Policy Questions for 2013
- Shuster Sees Compromise for Amtrak Funding (The Hill), and Won’t Rule Out Gas Tax (Bloomberg)
- Future Amtrak Will Be “More Like a Business and Less Like a Government Agency” (USA Today)
- EPA Honors Seven Smart Growth Projects (Switchboard)
- More on Why States Aren’t Using Flex Funds for Transit (Atlantic Cities)
- Grist Excerpts Chapter 2 of “Carbon Zero”
- Should Silicon Valley Extend Light Rail Despite Projected Low Ridership? (Mercury News)
- Funding Shifts Help Pittsburgh Transit (AP)
- Should the D.C. Area Spend Billions to Accommodate Sprawl? (WAMU)
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