Today’s Headlines
Politico Highlights Issues, Players to Watch in Transpo Policy in 2013 Conservative Groups Push Back Against Carbon Tax (The Hill) Amtrak Poised to Buy New Cars for Acela Service (The Hill, WSJ) LaHood: Federal Funding on Track for Detroit Transit Efforts (Detroit News) Sac Bee: It’s “Baffling” That Congressmen Want to Kill High-Speed Rail Tea Party-Linked … Continued
By
Katie Pearce
8:57 AM EST on December 14, 2012
- Politico Highlights Issues, Players to Watch in Transpo Policy in 2013
- Conservative Groups Push Back Against Carbon Tax (The Hill)
- Amtrak Poised to Buy New Cars for Acela Service (The Hill, WSJ)
- LaHood: Federal Funding on Track for Detroit Transit Efforts (Detroit News)
- Sac Bee: It’s “Baffling” That Congressmen Want to Kill High-Speed Rail
- Tea Party-Linked Group Petitions Against Maryland Gas Tax Hike (Capital Gazette)
- Connecticut Studies Jersey’s Transit-Oriented Development Strategies (Mobilizing the Region)
- Florida Looks Ready to Move on Orlando-to-Miami Train (Orlando Sentinel)
- New York “Totally Wins at Transit Ridership Diversity” (NY Mag)
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