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
By
Katie Pearce
8:48 AM EST on January 9, 2014
- 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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