Today's Headlines

Today’s Headlines

House Amtrak Bill Proposes Slashing Operating Support, Reinvesting in Northeast (Gannett, The Hill) Latest Cost Estimate for Maryland’s Purple Line Rises by $56M (WaPo) Foxx to Make Funding Announcement in Asheville (Citizen-Times) Poll: 79% of Americans Support Increasing Tolls to Pay for Transpo (The Hill) All Aboard Florida Critics Have to Accept the Train Is Leaving … Continued

By Katie Pearce

8:58 AM EDT on September 12, 2014

House Amtrak Bill Proposes Slashing Operating Support, Reinvesting in Northeast (Gannett, The Hill)
Latest Cost Estimate for Maryland’s Purple Line Rises by $56M (WaPo)
Foxx to Make Funding Announcement in Asheville (Citizen-Times)
Poll: 79% of Americans Support Increasing Tolls to Pay for Transpo (The Hill)
All Aboard Florida Critics Have to Accept the Train Is Leaving the Station (Boca Mag)
Virginia Pilot: Time to Stop Dithering on Light Rail
Why Have Americans Always Loved to Hate the Train? (Grist)
Was Boise’s One-Month Bike Lane Pilot Fated to Fail? (Next City)
University of Colorado Uses Denver’s TOD as Selling Point (Denver Business Journal)
New Leaders to Helm NJ Transit (Times Herald-Record)
DC Metro Will Try Out Payment by Smartphone (WaPo)

Katie Pearce

Today's Headlines

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