Today’s Headlines
LaHood to Stick Around (Bloomberg) Grist: It’s Congress, Not Obama, That Has Real Power with Climate Change Barbara Boxer Sees Carbon Tax as Viable (SF Chron) Amtrak Shifts Some Costs to States (WSJ) California’s High-Speed Rail Doesn’t Need Cash From Feds Just Yet (Politico) Report: D.C.-Area Public Wants Better Transpo, But Is Reluctant to Pay … Continued
By
Katie Pearce
9:05 AM EST on January 23, 2013
- LaHood to Stick Around (Bloomberg)
- Grist: It’s Congress, Not Obama, That Has Real Power with Climate Change
- Barbara Boxer Sees Carbon Tax as Viable (SF Chron)
- Amtrak Shifts Some Costs to States (WSJ)
- California’s High-Speed Rail Doesn’t Need Cash From Feds Just Yet (Politico)
- Report: D.C.-Area Public Wants Better Transpo, But Is Reluctant to Pay (WaPo)
- Project for Public Spaces Shows How to “Rightsize” Streets
- “We Must Do Better” With Chicago-St. Louis Rail (St. Louis Post Dispatch)
- Mississippi Transit System Tops Ridership Record (AP)
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