Today’s Headlines
Uber Becomes Vital Issue for Democratic Presidential Hopefuls (WaPo) U.S. Census: Three-Fourths of Americans Drive Solo to Work Metro New York Faces “Transportation Armageddon” With Aging Rail Tubes (CityLab) Phoenix Could Boost Light Rail, Cycling With New Sales Tax (AZ Central) DC-Area Lawmakers Blast Metro for Last Week’s “Unacceptable” Derailment (The Hill) Cycling Deaths Have Fallen for Kids, … Continued
August 14, 2015
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Foxx, GOP Senator Push for Bipartisanship on Transpo Funding (The Hill) Blumenthal: Hold Railroads Accountable for Not Meeting Safety Tech Deadline (NH Register) Christie Officially Pledges Against Gas Tax Hike for Jersey (NJ Spotlight) Insiders Offer Game Plan for Congress to Get Serious With Transpo Funding (Politico) Crowdfunding Can Be a Faster Path to Urban Projects Like … Continued
August 13, 2015
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Schumer: New Corporation Should Steer Hudson Tunnel Projects (New York Times) Foxx Faces Legal Issues With Bankrupt Bus Company (Charlotte Biz Journal) Report: Pedestrian Deaths Have Increased 15 Percent Since 2009 (WTOP) All Aboard Florida Offers Test Case for Private Passenger Rail (CityLab) DOT Helps Prep Communities for Climate Change Resilience (Fast Lane) Only a Handful … Continued
August 12, 2015
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Amtrak Exec: Delays Could Become the Norm for NJ Commuters (NYT) Despite Recent Crashes, Train Derailments Are Declining (Brookings) Apparently There’s No Plan B for the Red Line in Baltimore (Baltimore Sun, AP) Vox Breaks Down Where America Went Wrong on Transit A Decade After Katrina, the Gulf Coast Waits on Passenger Rail (AL.com) Bike-Share’s Everywhere Now, … Continued
August 11, 2015
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Majority of Railroads Won’t Meet Year-End Deadline for Positive Train Control (NYT) Cuomo Sees No Reason to Meet with Feds on New Hudson Tunnels (NYT) A Neighborly New Type of Car-Sharing (Chicago Trib) How Far is the U.S. From a Universal Transit Card? (CityLab) A $30M Price Hike for Minneapolis Light Rail Could Help Lure Federal Funds (Star Trib) … Continued
August 10, 2015
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Carper Proposes Nearly Doubling the Gas Tax (The Hill) Private Rail Group Wants High-Speed Link From Chicago to Twin Cities (Post Bulletin) While Another Private Company Wants a Worcester-Providence Line (AP) Boston, North Carolina Get New Transpo Chiefs (Boston Globe, AP) With Hearings Planned for NJ Transit Delays, Telecommuting Offered as Solution (NJ.com, Bloomberg) How $500M Made … Continued
August 7, 2015
Today’s Headlines
Uber and Public Transit Try to Make Friends (CityLab) America’s Worst and Most Dangerous Roads, Mapped by Google (WaPo) How Transit-Oriented Development Could Lower Rents in Chicago (Chicago Mag) APTA Recognizes Seven Transit Agencies for Sustainability Can Low Silver Line Ridership in Tysons Be Blamed on Lack of Sidewalks? (WAMU) Seattle Transit Goes Big Into Green Bonds (Wall … Continued
August 4, 2015
Today’s Headlines
Obama Signs Stopgap Transpo Extension, While Scolding Congress (The Hill, AP) Deal Reached to Preserve Chicago-Indy Rail (Chicago Sun-Times) NYT: Move Beyond the Gas Tax With Mileage-Based Fees Chicago Burbs Aim for More Walkable Development (Chicago Trib) How Can the Bay Area Unify Its Disjointed Transit Network? (NYT) NJ Transit Racks Up Big Bills Due … Continued
August 3, 2015
Today’s Headlines
Senate Clears That Three-Month Patch for Transpo (Politico) Pelosi: “How Can We Leave Doing That?” (The Hill) States Swamp DOT With TIGER Requests (Transport Topics) U.S. News & World Report: Private Sector Should Fill the Gap With Transpo Funding Sen. Casey Calls for More Federal Rail Inspectors (Observer-Reporter) Failing Northeast Rail Corridor Demands Solutions (Route Fifty) … But … Continued
July 31, 2015
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Senate Advances Six-Year Transpo Bill That House Doesn’t Plan to Take Up (The Hill) Boxer Goes Rogue in Pushing for GOP-Backed Measure (Politico) Foxx Hopes to Spur Action on New Hudson River Rail Tunnels (NYT) Year-Old Silver Line Seen as Catalyst in DC, Despite Not Meeting Ridership Projections (WaPo) A Bipartisan Plan to Steer More Transpo Dollars to Local … Continued
July 28, 2015