- Dear Sen. Boxer, Please Bring Transpo System Into the 21st Century. Love, 65 CA Electeds (T4America)
- NJ Could Get About Half of ARC Money Back to Use for Transit and Air Quality (Star Ledger)
- Census Data Maps Demographics of Race, Income, Housing (NYT)
- Value Capture from Real Estate is Funding Hong Kong's Transit Development (Transport Politic)
- Road Deaths Down, Distracted Driving Fatalities Up (WSJ)
- WaPo: VA Infrastructure Plan Is Too Puny to Satisfy the Need
- Ex-Congressman Bob Barr Calls LaHood "Nanny in Chief" for Blocking Cell Phones (AJC)
- Fighting Car-Centric Road Building in Seattle: An Interview with Cary Moon (Grist)
- Utah Jump-Starting Transit-Oriented Development With Five New Projects (Salt Lake Tribune)
- After Ballot Tax Defeat, Hillsborough County, Fla. Forages for Transit Funding (St. Petersburg Times)
- Traffic-Choked Beijing Proposes Bikeshare, Congestion Pricing (Bloomberg)
- Outgoing PA Gov. Rendell Pushes for Infrastructure Bank (AP)
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