Today’s Headlines
Blumenauer’s Two Bills for Transpo Funding: Raise Gas Tax, Let States Use VMT Fee (Politico) PBS News Hour Explores the VMT Concept Rail Industry Pushes for Automated Safety System to Prevent Crashes (Scientific American) Which Cities Are Leading the U.S. Decline in Driving? (Grist) … And How Florida Is Following The Trend (Tampa Bay Times) … Continued
By
Katie Pearce
8:52 AM EST on December 5, 2013
- Blumenauer’s Two Bills for Transpo Funding: Raise Gas Tax, Let States Use VMT Fee (Politico)
- PBS News Hour Explores the VMT Concept
- Rail Industry Pushes for Automated Safety System to Prevent Crashes (Scientific American)
- Which Cities Are Leading the U.S. Decline in Driving? (Grist)
- … And How Florida Is Following The Trend (Tampa Bay Times)
- California Bullet Train Planners May Have to Renegotiate $1B Contract (Bloomberg)
- MARC Expands to Weekend Service Between D.C. and Baltimore (WaPo)
- Is Fed Funding for Transit More Trouble Than Its Worth? (Twin Cities Finance & Commerce)
- New Guidebook Shows Cities How to Go Green (Atlantic Cities)
- Bike/Ped Projects Go After Lottery-Backed Funds in Oregon (Bike Portland)
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