Today’s Headlines
On the Hill, Another Band-Aid Seems Likely for Transpo Funding (The Hill) Though State Officials Are Still Urging a Long-Term Solution (Bond Buyer) Senate Approves Carlos Monje as Assistant DOT Secretary (Transport Topics) Truckers and Other Interests Buck “Devolution” of Federal Transpo Funding (Land Line) GGW: Tell the Public What’s Going on With the DC Streetcar Today is National … Continued
By
Katie Pearce
9:18 AM EDT on March 18, 2015
- On the Hill, Another Band-Aid Seems Likely for Transpo Funding (The Hill)
- Though State Officials Are Still Urging a Long-Term Solution (Bond Buyer)
- Senate Approves Carlos Monje as Assistant DOT Secretary (Transport Topics)
- Truckers and Other Interests Buck “Devolution” of Federal Transpo Funding (Land Line)
- GGW: Tell the Public What’s Going on With the DC Streetcar
- Today is National Transit Worker Appreciation Day (WESA)
- In San Francisco, Private Transit Companies Gain Foothold (SF Biz Times)
- Pitch Made for $155M Light Rail from Norfolk to Virginia Beach (Pilot)
- Atlanta Will Give You Toll Credits for Taking the Bus (Next City)
- Carnegie Mellon Study Looks at Transpo Funding in the Age of Electric Vehicles
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