Today’s Headlines
- Time to Stop the Desperate Funding Gimmicks, Taxpayer Bailouts (HuffPo, LIUNA)
- NH Lawmakers Approve Gas Tax Hike As Long As It Funds Road Expansion and Nothing Else (NHPR)
- Obama Sends Julian Castro's Nomination to be HUD Secretary to Senate (The Hill)
- Formerly Fast-Growing Sprawl Towns Decline in New Jersey (NJ.com)
- Honolulu Rail Not Living Up to Job-Creation Promises (Civil Beat)
- Single-Family Housing May Be Down, But Single-Family Houses Are Still Growing (WaPo)
- Driverless Cars Will Transform Transportation (H Plus)
- Transpo Projects Often Ignore Public Health, Especially in Poor Neighborhoods (UC Denver)
- Startup Transit Labs Launches In Four Pilot Cities in the South (Elevation DC)
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