- Republican Presidential Hopeful Pawlenty Wants to Privatize Amtrak (The Hill)
- Public Pays the Price for Privatizing Infrastructure (Politico)
- Google Robot Cars Would Promote Sprawl (Fast Company)
- NRDC’s Kaid Benfield: City of Detroit isn’t Shrinking, ‘Right-size’ the Suburbs (Grist)
- Corporations Realizing Best & Brightest Don’t Want to Work in Suburbs (The New Republic)
- New Book Tells the Secret History of America’s Interstate Highway System (Infrastructurist)
- DC Commuter Ferry Service Struggles to Stay Afloat (Washington Post)
- Sprawl Lobby Still Trying to Make DC Look Like Houston (Greater Greater Washington)
- China Set to Lap USA with High Speed Rail (Baltimore Sun)
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