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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
  • 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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