- Tense Day in Court for Florida Rail Advocates (TambaBay.com)
- Florida Mayors Ask Rick Scott to Reconsider Rejection of HSR Funds (Transpo Nation)
- With Gas Prices Rising, Now Is Exactly the Wrong Time to Cut Back on Transit (MTR)
- Krugman: Spending Cuts Threaten the Nascent Economic Recovery (NYT)
- We Neglect Infrastructure at Our Peril (Politico)
- Jeff Sessions "Flabbergasted" by DOT Budget Request (The Hill)
- ACLU Mulls Suing Metro Over Bag Checks (Washington Examiner)
- How Can We Avoid Transit Stops to Nowhere? (Transport Politic)
- It's Time to Use Life-Cycle Budgeting for Infrastructure (The Hill)
- Might the Japanese Subsidize California HSR? (Infrastructurist)
- Car-Centric Conservatives Spill Ink About Fictional "War on Cars" (GGW, Ezra Klein)
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