Today’s Headlines
- Forbes Analyzes the Democrats' Plan to Pay for Infrastructure By Cutting Corporate Taxes
- Virginia Hybrid Owners May Not Have to Help Pay for Roads After All (WaPo)
- Atlanta Mayor Kasim Reed on Making Smart Transpo Decisions With Scarce Resources (HuffPo)
- On Heels of Oil-Train Crashes, FRA Issues New Safety Regs (The Hill)
- Iowa Has Already Spent Next Year's Federal Transportation Funds (Sioux City Journal)
- Officials Throw Cold Water on LRT to LAX Idea (LAT)
- Why DC's Poorest, Biggest, Blackest Ward Has 0 of the City's 72 Bike Lanes (City Paper, Wash Cycle)
- The Looming Explosion in 3rd-World Car Use Is Avoidable (Reuters)
- Driving Isn't Fun Anymore (And Other Reasons Young People Will Keep Driving Less) (Treehugger)
- U.S. Court: Oil Drillers Can't Just Lie About Environmental Impacts (Salon)
- The Case for Political Candidates Staying Mum on Transit (Torontoist)
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