- Spiking Gas Prices Mean Savings for Transit Riders (Reuters)
- Meanwhile, White House Considers Tapping Strategic Reserves (Bloomberg)
- Rail Dead; Florida Gov. Scott Wants to Dredge Instead (LAT, Transpo Nation)
- New Transpo Chief on Horizon for San Francisco (Chronicle)
- In the Midst of Red Ink, Can America Save Its Infrastructure? (Transport Politic)
- Magazine, DOT Team Up to Fight Distracted Driving (Consumer Reports)
- Different Cities, Same PR Problems for Bicycles (GGW)
- How Basketball Can Save a Neighborhood (HuffPo)
- Is This the End of the Petroleum Age? (Grist)
- Miles Traveled Up, But Americans Aren’t Driving More (TNR)
- The Anti-Transit Argument (Weekly Standard)
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