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November 2009
Thu 19: A Warning From America’s Cities: The Recession Has Only Just Begun to Hit 0
Tue 17: Dems, AFL-CIO Step Up Push for Infrastructure Spending as Job Creator 0
Mon 2: To Limit Distracted Driving, Congress Leans Toward a Carrot-Stick Combo 2
October 2009
Wed 28: At Senate Climate Hearings, Lots of Transport Talk and All Eyes on Baucus 0
Mon 26: GOP Senators Protest Evaluating the Climate Impacts of Transport Projects 0
Fri 9: Streetsblog Q&A: Bush DOT Chief Backs Transport Tech Funding 0
September 2009
Thu 17: Warner Scores a (Small) Win for White House’s Transportation Agenda 0
Wed 16: Senate R's Attempts to Strip Bike/Ped Requirment Dies on Senate Floor 0
Wed 16: New Investigation Finds 2,100 Transport Lobbyists Working the System 0
Tue 15: The New White House Fuel Efficiency Rule: Count the Loopholes 0
Wed 9: How Much Would Most People Pay For a Shorter Commute? 3
Wed 9: Was the Auto Industry Bailout Legal? It’s Debatable, Oversight Panel Says 1
Tue 8: Compromise or Concession: It's Not Just for Healthcare 0
Fri 4: LaHood on Transport: ‘We Don’t Want to Pit One Mode … Against Another’ 0
Tue 1: ‘Clunkers’ Consequences: GM Sales Down, Ford Gas-Guzzlers Up 0
August 2009
Mon 31: Senator Dukakis? What Kennedy’s Loss Could Mean for Transport Policy 1
Wed 26: The Power of Transit-Oriented Development 5
Wed 19: Know Your Transportation Lobbyists: Transit Beats Roads — Sort Of 1
Mon 17: Tracking Transport Subsidies: As Tough as Following the Stimulus Money 1
Mon 17: Oil Industry Tears Page from Health Care Playbook to Battle Climate Bill 1
Thu 13: Distracted Driving Laws Lack Teeth in Some States, Not CA 0
Thu 13: Obama Administration Touts Nation’s First All-Electronic Toll Road in N.C. 1
Wed 12: Electric Cars and the Future of the Gas Tax 6
Mon 10: 30 Congressmen Propose Oil Futures Tax to Pay for Transportation 3
Mon 10: The Peculiar Federalism of Transit Safety: No National Standards Exist 5
Fri 7: Electrified Transportation’s Big Week in Washington 1
Thu 6: Audit Finds U.S. DOT’s Transit Record-Keeping ‘Unreliable,’ ‘Inaccurate’ 1
Wed 5: Portland’s Transport Research Guru Headed to Obama Administration 1
Mon 3: How — and When — Can D.C. Help Local Transport Reform Happen? 3
July 2009
Mon 27: The Capitol’s 10 Transportation Players to Know 0
Wed 22: Dems. in Senate Pushing Transit Into Climate Change 0
Mon 13: Transit Outsourcing Booms — But Are There Safety Trade-offs? 7
Fri 10: Republicans Deem Transpo Stimulus — 6% of Total Spending — a ‘Failure’ 1
Wed 8: Urban Traffic Report Sparks Clever Headlines, But Little Transit Talk 0
Wed 8: Lawmakers Aim to Bring ‘Sustainable Communities’ From Talk to Action 1
Tue 7: Getting the Message 3
Tue 7: Senate Starts Climate Push With Nods to Jobs, Energy, and Transportation 0
Mon 6: Adding More Transportation to the Climate Change Mix 8
Mon 6: New Report on Old Roads Uses Old Assumptions 0
Wed 1: Cities See Population Gains — But What About Political Power? 0
June 2009
Mon 29: House Climate Bill on Green Transpo: The Details 0
Fri 26: The Wall Street Tax Shelter That Crashed Your Local Transit Agency 8
Fri 26: The House is Debating Climate and Energy Legislation Right Now (Updated) 1
Thu 25: Ohio Republican Senator: Voinovich: Business Buy-in Can Get Transportation Bill Done 3
Thu 25: Boxer: Forget Transportation Bill, Work with Me on Something Else 4
May 2009
Wed 20: Watson One of Four Lawmakers Who Show Up To Pitch Local Projects 0