Today’s Headlines
- Smart Use of Smartphone Data Tracks Trains in Real Time (NYT)
- Haley Barbour: Obama Trying to Keep Gas Prices High (WaPo)
- Most Inspiring Bit of Biking Advice You'll Ever Get From a Kindergartener (HuffPo)
- California High-Speed Rail Project Has Plenty of Critics (SacBee)
- The Interstate Highway System: A Blessing and a Curse (WSJ)
- The Man Who Designed the DC Metro Map Gives It Another Go Thirty Years Later (WaPo)
- Mapnificent: An App That Calculates Transit Travel Times for You (Good)
- The Strange and Fascinating History of Disneyland's "Highway in the Sky" (Micechat)
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