Today’s Headlines
Funeral for Frank Lautenberg Honors Amtrak’s “Best Friend” (AP) Lautenberg Remembered with “Upbeat Eulogies” (The Hill), Including One from Biden (WaPo) Carbon Pricing Catches on Worldwide … Except for U.S. (Grist) Biggest Barrier to Cycling’s Popularity? Distance (Atlantic Cities) Should the Choice Be Price or Quality for California High-Speed Rail? (Mercury News) Milwaukee Court Ruling Could … Continued
By
Katie Pearce
9:02 AM EDT on June 6, 2013
- Funeral for Frank Lautenberg Honors Amtrak’s “Best Friend” (AP)
- Lautenberg Remembered with “Upbeat Eulogies” (The Hill), Including One from Biden (WaPo)
- Carbon Pricing Catches on Worldwide … Except for U.S. (Grist)
- Biggest Barrier to Cycling’s Popularity? Distance (Atlantic Cities)
- Should the Choice Be Price or Quality for California High-Speed Rail? (Mercury News)
- Milwaukee Court Ruling Could Change the Game for Highway Projects (Atlantic Cities)
- In PA Senate, “Rural Conservatives and Urban Liberals” Come Together to Raise Transpo Funding (AP)
- Atlanta Could Reinvent Itself Through Beltline Project (The Dirt)
- Kentucky Increases Gas Tax This Summer (WKMS)
- In Chicago, Groupon Donates to Protected Lanes to Honor Staffer Killed in Bike Crash (Sun Times)
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