- Lawmakers Shooting Down Every Viable Transportation Funding Option (Bloomberg)
- ...But Secretary Foxx Is Still Optimistic About a Deal (The Hill)
- Obama's Transportation Proposal Is Good -- Let's Raise the Gas Tax to Pay For It (Grist, Marketplace)
- Obama May Have Given Up on Infrastructure Bank, But Georgetown Public Policy Review Hasn't
- Camp Proposal Raises the Gas Tax -- But Only on Barge Operators (E&E)
- If Americans Are Driving Less, Let's Stop Building New Roads (Looking at You, Seattle) (Atlantic Cities)
- When Will Bertha Get Moving Again on the Seattle Tunnel? Maybe June. Maybe October. (Crosscut)
- Ballot Initiative to Block High-Speed Rail Bonding in California Moves Forward (Biz Journal)
- Bixi's Bankruptcy Slows Down Capital Bikeshare Expansion (WaPo)
- Now Every Bus in SF Is a Google Bus (SF Chronicle)
- Maybe Texas Would Have Been a Better Place to Launch HSR in the U.S. (RPUS)
- "Extreme Guerrilla Traffic Calming" (Cyclelicio.us)
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