Today’s Headlines
Foxx Warns of Delays to State Transportation Funding (The Hill) … And Downplays U.S. DOT’s Proposal to Allow Interstate Tolling (Land Line) Everybody Tiptoes Around the Gas Tax (Trucking Info) NRDC Switchboard Outlines Top Provisions in Grow America Act Amtrak CEO: A Hudson River Tunnel Might Have to Be Shut Down in Less Than 20 Years … Continued
By
Katie Pearce
8:57 AM EDT on May 8, 2014
- Foxx Warns of Delays to State Transportation Funding (The Hill)
- … And Downplays U.S. DOT’s Proposal to Allow Interstate Tolling (Land Line)
- Everybody Tiptoes Around the Gas Tax (Trucking Info)
- NRDC Switchboard Outlines Top Provisions in Grow America Act
- Amtrak CEO: A Hudson River Tunnel Might Have to Be Shut Down in Less Than 20 Years (The Hill)
- Ann Arbor Voters Pass Transit Tax for Increased Service (M Live)
- High-Speed Rail Could Connect Fort Worth, Dallas (Fox4)
- Kansas City Bike-Share Founder Shares Notes for Small Cities (Next City)
- Atlantic Cities on How Tolls Could Avert Transportation Crisis
- TOD Planned For All Aboard Florida Station in Miami (Miami Today)
- What’s It Like to Live in Cincinnati Without a Car? (City Beat)
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