- Heads up to D.C. area readers: Today is the grand opening of the BikeStation, a new outpost for bike commuters and recreational riders (NPR)
- Shocker: When "cash for clunkers" evaporated, so did U.S. automakers' sales gains (CNN)
- Transportation fatalities were down 10 percent in 2008, according to federal safety regulators (Prog. Railroading)
- A must-read for Californians: Why the Senate climate bill is really Kerry-Boxer, not Boxer-Kerry (Grist)
- Mountain bikers make their voices heard on Sen. Jon Tester's (D-MT) Montana wilderness legislation (New West)
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