July 11, 2012 
ILMPO
 
Illinois MPO Advisory Council 
Transportation News Brief
ILMPO Website
IDOT Website
Illinois News

Elgin-O'Hare competing for federal transportation funds (Daily Herald)

Federal Transportation Bill Creates Jobs While Investing in Illinois Mass Transit, Highways, Durbin Says (eNews Park Forest)

High-Speed Rail Funding Cut (CBS St Louis)

MAP-21 -- Major Programmatic and Policy Changes (CMAP Blog)

Pekin kiosk promotes local sites for visitors (Pekin Times)

Preservationists hope clocktower survives rail consolidation (State Journal Register)

Quinn to unveil $1.6 billion in transportation projects (Chicago Tribune)

Report: Railroad bridge information hard to track (Quad City Times)

Sen. Durbin calls for railroad checks (WBEZ)
National News

After the Dust Has Settled... Some Reflections on the New Transportation Law (MAP-21) (Infrastructure USA)

LaHood announces rail industry plan to hire 5,000 veterans (The Hill)

Lender's Remorse in the Highway Deal? (National Journal)

Magnetek Expects Improved Pension Outlook with Passage of Pension Funding Relief  (Market Watch)

MAP-21 Annotated - Megaprojects Grant Funding (Transportation Issues Daily)

MAP-21 Creates Potential to Accelerate Project Delivery (Nossaman, LLP)

Our Transportation Funding Disconnect (Governing Magazine)

President Obama signs bill to create jobs,
restore America's transportation system (Secretary LaHood)

States Already Licking Their Chops Over Newly "Flexible" Bike/Ped Funds (D.C. Streets Blog)

We're Still Living in the SAFETEA-LU Era For Three More Months (D.C. Streets Blog)

Marta Elena Perales
MPO Statewide Coordinator 
Illinois MPO Advisory Council