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7:55 AM EDT on May 26, 2010

LaHood hails Canada's offer to help pay for a new bridge link between its southern border and Detroit (Det. News)
Feds release new guide to bike commuting implementation (LAB Blog)
Voinovich lobbies his local regional planning organization for a gas tax hike to fund new federal transport bill (Biz Courier)
Felix Salmon profiles transport wonk and Streetsblog NYC contributor Charles Komanoff (Wired)
Austin, Texas, sees its federal payment under the infrastructure-centric Build America Bonds program temporarily withheld by the IRS (Bloomberg)
How Portland, Oregon, sold local banks on walkable development (Streetsblog NYC)
San Jose airport planners consider personal rapid transit "pods" for local airport (Merc News)
50 years later, Wisconsin state DOT apologizes to Indian tribe for demolishing one of their cemeteries (AP)
Memphis city council scraps funding for proposed light rail link between downtown, airport (Comm. Appeal)
In South Africa, a transportation strike is hobbling small-scale agriculture (WSJ)

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