Today’s Headlines
NRDC Switchboard Looks Back at the Year in Transportation Policy Vision Unfulfilled: Obama’s Goal for a Nationwide High-Speed Rail Network (The Hill) Demographics Around DC Metro Stops: Increasingly Young, White, Educated (WaPo) After Rocky First Year, Atlanta Streetcar Gets Another Chance in 2016 (AJC) Louisiana’s New Governor Wants New Orleans-to-Baton Rouge Rail (Times-Picayune) Amtrak Debuts PTC … Continued
By
Katie Pearce
8:55 AM EST on December 21, 2015
- NRDC Switchboard Looks Back at the Year in Transportation Policy
- Vision Unfulfilled: Obama’s Goal for a Nationwide High-Speed Rail Network (The Hill)
- Demographics Around DC Metro Stops: Increasingly Young, White, Educated (WaPo)
- After Rocky First Year, Atlanta Streetcar Gets Another Chance in 2016 (AJC)
- Louisiana’s New Governor Wants New Orleans-to-Baton Rouge Rail (Times-Picayune)
- Amtrak Debuts PTC Safety Tech Between NYC and Philly (WSJ)
- Boston Developers and Officials Want More Details Before They Pony Up for Green Line (Globe)
- Twin Cities Sees Racial Disparities in Transit Fare Enforcement (StarTrib)
- Houston Studies Bringing High-Speed Rail Downtown (Houston Chron)
- A Pedestrian Disaster on the Vegas Strip (CNN)
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