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Pols Cast About For Somebody to Blame for $4 Gas (The Hill) Is a Train That Gets Stuck in Traffic Worth $1.3 Billion? (Transport Politic) On Climate, Americans Cling to Skepticism (Gallup) Great Historian, Flawed Thinker on High-Speed Rail (NYT, CHSR) Transit and Development Go Hand-in-Hand (Denver Post) Satellites See All Sorts of Things, But … Continued
April 25, 2011
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Streetsblog Capitol Hill is taking the rest of the day off for Good Friday. See you Monday!
April 22, 2011
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Obama: GOP Cuts Would Turn America into a “Pothole Nation” (TPM) Minn. Officials Roll Out Pilot Pay-By-The-Mile Tracking System (Star Tribune) Inattentive Air Controllers: The Story That Just Won’t Die (ABC) TNR Asks If It’s Time for a Two-Year Transportation Bill Key Lessons Go Unnoticed a Year After Gulf Oil Spill (Chronicle) Ohio Gov. John Kasich: A … Continued
April 20, 2011
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In Sprawling Atlanta, Pols Call for Better Transit, Bike Infrastructure, and More (AJC) Does Obama Have the Chutzpah to Push for Infrastructure? (The Transport Politic) Gas Prices Rising But Still a Bargain (ABC, Flowing Data) Can a New Light Rail Line Help Unite the Divided City of Jerusalem? (Transpo Nation) A Mere Sliver of the Federal … Continued
April 18, 2011
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Gas Prices on Pace to Break All-Time Record (USA Today) Rick Scott’s Lawyer Wrong About Key Fact in Florida HSR Lawsuit (SPT) DeMint Mired in Quarrel Over Port Earmark (TPM) Reports: Natural Gas Not as Clean as Thought (Infrastructurist) When Did Breathing Stop Being Good for the Economy? (Grist) David Simon: We Live or Die … Continued
April 15, 2011
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Budget Compromise Guts Obama’s High-Speed Rail Plan (NYT, Transpo Nation) Uncertainties Loom for California Bullet Train (Mercury News, LAT) Florida Gov. Scott Claims Credit for Cut (The Hill) In Another Blow to Transit, Cincinnati Streetcar Axed (Reuters) Debate Brews Over Earthquake-Damaged Seattle Highway (Infrastructurist) Earmark Ban Saved $10 Billion (TPM) The ABCs of Getting a Crosswalk … Continued
April 13, 2011
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Shutdown Averted: Billions for Transportation Will Be Cut (The Hill) EPA Riders Eliminated During Budget Deal (Politico) Gas Prices on Path for an All-Time High (CNN) Double Beltways for DC Would Have Meant Double Sprawl (Transpo Nation) Facebook Goes Suburban With Move to Menlo Park (Grist) Study: High Asthma Rates Near Ports in California (NRDC) … Continued
April 11, 2011
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Clean Air Rules Key Sticking Point in Budget Impasse (The Hill) House Bill to Stop EPA from Regulating Greenhouse Gases Passes (WSJ) Amtrak on Pace for Record Ridership (The Hill) Capital Bikeshare Ads Could Generate $500,000 for DC (WBJ) The Good, Bad, and Ugly of London’s Boris Bikes (This Big City) Can We Combine Energy, … Continued
April 8, 2011
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No Budget Deal After White House Summit With Congressional Leaders (WaPo, The Hill) Poll: Traders Expect Oil Prices to Continue Climbing (Reuters) Higher Gas Prices Could Be a Bigger Political Hurdle for Obama Than High Unemployment (LAT) Air Traffic, Amtrak Would Operate During Shutdown (AP, USA Today) Senate Pushes Back GOP Attempt to Gut EPA … Continued
April 7, 2011
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Infrastructure Mired in Budget Battle (NYT) Oil Dependence Leaves American Economy Vulnerable (AP) How Can the U.S. Move Forward on Transportation? (National Journal) Water: An Untapped Transportation Resource? (The Hill) Mayor Gray Finds Room for Transit in DC Budget (GGW) Survey: Americans Prefer Walkable Neighborhoods (IBT) Does Bus Rapid Transit Have a Future? (Grist) Radiant … Continued
April 6, 2011