- LaHood says a nationwide network of bike trails could be possible (NPR)
- Kerry, Graham, Lieberman meeting tonight to try to salvage Senate climate legislation (Globe)
- Forbes names its top 10 "cities in free fall" -- several of which are noted sprawl havens
- Pennsylvania report sees a future for conventional rail in the state, but not for mag-lev (Post-Gazette)
- L.A. port wins federal award for its clean truck program (NRDC Blog)
- U.S. DOT's statistics arm to begin tracking freight rail yields (Prog. RR'ing)
- Nissan reports buyers have reserved 20% of their initial run of Leaf electric cars ...(LAT)
- ... as the company teams with GE to offer "smart" charging for future vehicles (CNET)
- The American real-estate boom and bust, complete with sprawl concerns, is starting to play out in China (LAT)
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