Today's Headlines

Today’s Headlines

WaPo Talks to LaHood About DOT’s Turnaround States Must Address Transpo Funding Shortfalls in 2013 (Governing) Feds Sign Commitment to Hawaii’s “Train of the Future” (HuffPo, Star Advertiser) Washington Governor Wants Fuel Tax to Pay for School Buses (Transpo Nation, Seattle Times) Is Maine Shortchanging Urban Areas? (Bangor Daily News) Chicago-to-St. Louis High-Speed Rail Passes … Continued

By Katie Pearce

9:17 AM EST on December 20, 2012

WaPo Talks to LaHood About DOT’s Turnaround
States Must Address Transpo Funding Shortfalls in 2013 (Governing)
Feds Sign Commitment to Hawaii’s “Train of the Future” (HuffPo, Star Advertiser)
Washington Governor Wants Fuel Tax to Pay for School Buses (Transpo Nation, Seattle Times)
Is Maine Shortchanging Urban Areas? (Bangor Daily News)
Chicago-to-St. Louis High-Speed Rail Passes Key Step (AP, Fox2Now)
Baltimore Sun: It’s High Time for Maryland to Raise the Gas Tax (And GGW Agrees)
Gov. Snyder Signs Bill for Detroit-Area Transit Authority (WWJ)
Denver Plans First Big Move of “Aerotropolis” (Denver Biz Journal)

Katie Pearce

Today's Headlines

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