Today's Headlines

Today’s Headlines

Obama Signs $305 Billion Five-Year Transportation Bill (The Hill) What Did Lobbyists Get Out of the Bill? (NRDC Switchboard) Money-Losing Amtrak Routes Could Be Opened Up to Private Competition (WSJ) Minnesota’s Growing Divide Between Urban and Rural (StarTrib) How Did D.C.’s Streetcar Project Careen Off the Tracks? (WaPo) Irony in Detroit: Downtown Recovery a Threat to Auto Showing Parking (Crain’s … Continued

By Katie Pearce

8:59 AM EST on December 7, 2015

Obama Signs $305 Billion Five-Year Transportation Bill (The Hill)
What Did Lobbyists Get Out of the Bill? (NRDC Switchboard)
Money-Losing Amtrak Routes Could Be Opened Up to Private Competition (WSJ)
Minnesota’s Growing Divide Between Urban and Rural (StarTrib)
How Did D.C.’s Streetcar Project Careen Off the Tracks? (WaPo)
Irony in Detroit: Downtown Recovery a Threat to Auto Showing Parking (Crain’s Detroit)
Seattle Could Get Second Downtown Light-Rail Tunnel (Columbian)
Connecticut, Amtrak Agree to Finish Hartford Line (Daily Voice)
Self-Driving Cars Could Either Clear or Clog City Streets (Technica.ly Philly)
Grants Fund Bike Projects for Central Iowa (Quad City Times)

Katie Pearce

Today's Headlines

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