Today’s Headlines
Foxx Rejects Federal Oversight for DC Metro (WaPo) Airlines: Don’t Divert TSA Fees for Transpo Bill (Travel Pulse, The Hill) Bipartisan Duo Say Offshore Taxes Are the Only Answer (The Hill) DOT Rule Changes Make It Easier to Add Bike Lanes (Tampa Bay Times) San Diego Votes Today on Big Transit Plans (NBC San Diego) Progressive … Continued
By
Katie Pearce
8:57 AM EDT on October 9, 2015
- Foxx Rejects Federal Oversight for DC Metro (WaPo)
- Airlines: Don’t Divert TSA Fees for Transpo Bill (Travel Pulse, The Hill)
- Bipartisan Duo Say Offshore Taxes Are the Only Answer (The Hill)
- DOT Rule Changes Make It Easier to Add Bike Lanes (Tampa Bay Times)
- San Diego Votes Today on Big Transit Plans (NBC San Diego)
- Progressive Railroading Surveys the Current State of Transit Agencies
- Five Rail Projects L.A. Could Pursue With New Sales Tax Revenue (L.A. Times)
- Atlanta Mag Profiles “The Man Who Saved MARTA”
- 13 Ideas for Fixing the DC Metro (Washington City Paper)
- Advocates Push for Bikes to Get Priority in Austin (Austin Biz Journal)
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