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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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