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Mica Defends $1.2 Billion Investment for Meager Returns of SunRail (NYT) Eight Perspectives on Car Culture and Policy in Europe and the US (NYT) More Research Shows We’ve Hit Peak Car Use (Treehugger) ClimateWire Digs Into ITDP’s Report on BRT in the United States Rep. Brown: Privatizing Amtrak Would Bankrupt Employee Retirement Funds (The Hill) Obama … Continued

By Kathryn Reid Moore

9:24 AM EDT on June 29, 2011

Mica Defends $1.2 Billion Investment for Meager Returns of SunRail (NYT)
Eight Perspectives on Car Culture and Policy in Europe and the US (NYT)
More Research Shows We’ve Hit Peak Car Use (Treehugger)
ClimateWire Digs Into ITDP’s Report on BRT in the United States
Rep. Brown: Privatizing Amtrak Would Bankrupt Employee Retirement Funds (The Hill)
Obama Wants Cars to Get 56.2MPG By 2025 – But Can We Do It? (Transpo Nation)
Bike Part Vending Machine and Fix-A-Flat Kiosk Comes to Minneapolis (GOOD)
Good Freight and Passenger Rail Systems Are Not Mutually Exclusive (Transport Politic)
How European Policies Are to Motivating People to Rethink Silly Car Trips (NYT)

Kathryn Reid Moore

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