Today’s Headlines
Troubled DC Metro Attracting Scrutiny From All Corners (WaPo) Shuster Heads to Georgia With Transpo Funding Talk (The Hill) High-Speed Rail Could Connect DC and Richmond By 2025 (News Leader) Salt Lake City’s Transit Success Story (Railway Age) SunRail Seeks $35M From Feds for Expansion (Daily Commercial) BRT Could Transform Route 66 in Albuquerque (Albuquerque … Continued
By
Katie Pearce
9:00 AM EDT on June 8, 2015
- Troubled DC Metro Attracting Scrutiny From All Corners (WaPo)
- Shuster Heads to Georgia With Transpo Funding Talk (The Hill)
- High-Speed Rail Could Connect DC and Richmond By 2025 (News Leader)
- Salt Lake City’s Transit Success Story (Railway Age)
- SunRail Seeks $35M From Feds for Expansion (Daily Commercial)
- BRT Could Transform Route 66 in Albuquerque (Albuquerque Journal)
- Seattle Walkability Advocates Want Bigger Push of $930M Transpo Levy (Seattle Times)
- Why Is Norfolk Light Rail Losing So Much Money Per Passenger? (Pilot)
- Rochester, NY, Has Too Many Cars, Not Enough Pedestrians (Rochester Biz Journal)
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