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)
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