Today’s Headlines
APTA Asks Trump For Its Typical Slice of the Infrastructure Pie (The Hill) How the Push for Quick Infrastructure Could Affect Environmental Regs (Governing) In Detroit Today, Trump Expected to Reconsider Emissions Standards (Detroit News) St. Louis, Dallas Press Washington for Transit Funding (MissouriNet, Dallas News) Tech Bros Feel the Uber, Lyft Void at Austin’s SXSW (Slate) The Results of Bay Area’s Transit Incentive … Continued
By
Katie Pearce
8:59 AM EDT on March 14, 2017
- APTA Asks Trump For Its Typical Slice of the Infrastructure Pie (The Hill)
- How the Push for Quick Infrastructure Could Affect Environmental Regs (Governing)
- In Detroit Today, Trump Expected to Reconsider Emissions Standards (Detroit News)
- St. Louis, Dallas Press Washington for Transit Funding (MissouriNet, Dallas News)
- Tech Bros Feel the Uber, Lyft Void at Austin’s SXSW (Slate)
- The Results of Bay Area’s Transit Incentive Test (CityLab)
- Will Streetcars Come to Downtown D.C.? (WAMU)
- Light Rail Plans Speed Up for Orange, Durham (WUNC)
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