The Daily Dig

• New York passes a hastily written, not-very-satisfying-to-anyone MTA bailout bill. It doesn’t raise enough money and nobody knows how to collect the money it does raise. (Second Ave Sagas, NYT)
• Government official are generally still ambivalent about the idea of public-private partnerships for infrastructure — even among those with experience in the field, only about half are fans. (Dow Jones)
• Obama is expected to release more details on his plan for a national infrastructure bank today — but don’t think of it as a fix-all for our national woes, says one official. (Reuters)
• Barbara Boxer has a history of leadership on green issues — but can she be relied upon to advance a sustainable and sane policy agenda in the next transportation bill? (StreetsBlog SF)
• Under budget pressure, New Jersey Transit is making cuts — including fewer printed timetables for commuters. Cutting bus and train service is on the table, but is “a last resort.” (NorthJersey via BaristaNet)
• The Spanish landscape is littered with abandoned cranes — relics of a bygone building boom. (WSJ)
• Tesla motors founder Elon Musk is thinking about making electric planes — supersonic, no less. (Treehugger)
• Nirvana bassist Krist Novoselic remembers tooling around in $100 VW bus back in 1990 — his account is fun, but it’s also a case study in how much the cost of car ownership has gone up since then. (Seattle Transit Blog)

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