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Today’s Headlines

LaHood Urges Obama to Embrace Gas Tax Increase (HuffPo) Can the Water Bill Serve as Model for Highway Bill Compromise? (Bloomberg) Brookings: Has Suburbanization Doomed the War on Poverty? French Firm to Take Over Running Massachusetts Commuter Rail (Boston Globe) … And How the Transit Chief “Cracked Some Eggs” to Get There (Globe) Could Obamacare … Continued
  • LaHood Urges Obama to Embrace Gas Tax Increase (HuffPo)
  • Can the Water Bill Serve as Model for Highway Bill Compromise? (Bloomberg)
  • Brookings: Has Suburbanization Doomed the War on Poverty?
  • French Firm to Take Over Running Massachusetts Commuter Rail (Boston Globe)
  • … And How the Transit Chief “Cracked Some Eggs” to Get There (Globe)
  • Could Obamacare Actually Affect California’s High-Speed Rail? (HuffPo)
  • New Jersey Advocates Rally for Restored Transit Benefit (Asbury Park Press)
  • Cincinnati Mayor Keeps Going With “Anti-Streetcar Rhetoric” (Cincinnati City Beat)
  • Retrofitting for TOD: An Example from Miami (NRDC Switchboard)
  • How Should Bike-Shares Work in Hilly Cities? (Atlantic Cities)
  • Ann Arbor Studies New Amtrak Station Along Detroit-Chicago Route (M Live)

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