- Cleveland City Council passes resolution backing Sen. Brown and Rep. Kucinich in their push for bike-ped lane on the new Innerbelt Bridge (Plain Dealer Blog)
- New study examines the stress that a future electric-car boom would put on the nation's grid, with surprising results (TreeHugger)
- Questioning the nation's dwindling investment in its built environment (Grist)
- Democratic senators from both coasts vow to oppose offshore drilling expansions in the pending climate change bill (The Hill Blog)
- Democrat vying to replace Rendell as PA governor calls for state transportation spending to double (Inquirer)
- Missouri state DOT chief Pete Rahn leaves to join engineering firm HNTB (KC Star)
- New Hampshire follows Wyoming in nixing the notion of new interstate tolls (Observer)
- Seattle mayor still vowing to build light rail in the face of skeptical financial analysis (P-I Blog)
- Maryland lawmakers pass ban on hand-held cell phones (WaPo)
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