NATIONAL NEWS

DC Streetsblog: U.S. DOT Previews How New Transit Rules Could Define ‘Livability’
http://dc.streetsblog.org/2010/01/21/u-s-dot-previews-how-new-transit-rules-could-define-livability/
When the Obama administration announced an ambitious revamp of transit funding rules to, as the Transportation Secretary put it, "take livability into account," urban planners and rail fans alike were pleased -- but also uncertain.

Wired: To Create Jobs, Build Public Transit, Not Highways
http://www.wired.com/autopia/2010/01/jobs-for-main-street-act/#ixzz0dGpxO6pz
If we’d spent as much federal stimulus money on public transportation as we spent on highways, we would have created twice as much work and put a bigger dent in the unemployment rate.

STATE NEWS

Dallas Morning News: North Texas Tollway Authority seeks state help to build toll roads
http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/news/localnews/transportation/stories/DN-ntta_21met.ART0.Central.Edition1.4be25c6.html
The North Texas Tollway Authority voted unanimously Wednesday to seek help from the Texas Department of Transportation to build two major toll roads... The second, and far more substantial, assistance NTTA is seeking from the state is a promise to lend NTTA $300 million from the Texas State Infrastructure Bank. That money would be used for Southwest Parkway should NTTA fail to secure a special federal loan it would seek first.