Today’s Headlines
Obama’s Transportation Budget as “Ambitious as It Is Unachievable” (Politico) Shuster: Transpo Budget Lacks Funding Source (The Hill) Smart Growth America Looks at How Budget Would Affect Urban Areas (Atlantic Cities) New Detroit Transit Authority Gets Busy (Free Press) Massachusetts Senate to Meet Saturday to Work on Transpo Funding (Boston.com) Funding in Question for Pittsburgh-Philly-NYC Train … Continued
By
Katie Pearce
9:08 AM EDT on April 11, 2013
- Obama’s Transportation Budget as “Ambitious as It Is Unachievable” (Politico)
- Shuster: Transpo Budget Lacks Funding Source (The Hill)
- Smart Growth America Looks at How Budget Would Affect Urban Areas (Atlantic Cities)
- New Detroit Transit Authority Gets Busy (Free Press)
- Massachusetts Senate to Meet Saturday to Work on Transpo Funding (Boston.com)
- Funding in Question for Pittsburgh-Philly-NYC Train (Philly.com)
- Dismal Numbers for St. Paul Bikeshare Show Need for More Bike Lanes (MinnPost)
- Central Indy’s Watered-Down Transit Bill Set for More Negotiations (IndyStar)
- Rejected Gas Tax Could Thwart Big Minnesota Transpo Projects (InForum)
- Bay Area Bike-sharing Gets Moving (WSJ)
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