Today’s Headlines
- White House "Strongly Opposes" House Appropriations Bill for Transportation (Hill)
- Brookings: "Innovation Districts" Concentrate Ideas, Technology, Development in Urban Form
- House Rejects Funding Cuts For Amtrak, In Unprecedented Act of Reason (Hill)
- Postmaster General Doesn't Mind GOP Plan to Pay for Transpo By Cutting Saturday Delivery (Hill)
- Teamsters Union Urges Congress to Restore Hours-of-Service Rules for Truckers (PR Newswire)
- A Deeper Analysis of the Anecdotal Evidence That Bike-Share Hurts Bike Shops (>WaPo)
- RideScout App Expands Into 69 New Cities (Oregonian)
- Toll Roads in Dallas Flood Plain: A "Radically Backward" Idea (D Magazine)
- Florida Gov. Rick Scott Under Fire for Supporting East Coast Rail (TBT)
- Study: 91,000 of Chicago's 125,000 Daily Bike Trips Are Utilitarian (Sun-Times)
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