- Debt Ceiling Fight No Longer About Substance, Just Partisan Maneuvering (WaPo)
- Would Transpo Funding Stop in Case of Government Default? (Transportation Issues Daily)
- John Mica: Put the Trust Back in the Trust Fund, Leave Infrastructure Decisions to States (Roll Call)
- This is What We Do With Scarce U.S. Transpo Money: Lose it to the Taliban (WaPo)
- China Does Damage Control After 39 Die in Rail Crash (Reuters)
- "It's Called a Cycle Track": Chicago Gets Its First Protected Bike Lane (Tribune)
- Denver Managed to Avoid Atlanta's Transpo Fate. Can Atlanta Now Copy Denver? (AJC)
- Funding Available for Tribal Transit (Sacramento Biz Journal)
- The Demise of Borders and the Importance of "Third Places" in Cities (MyUrbanist)
- Planned, Sustainable Greenfield Development: A Contradiction in Terms? (Curbed)
- Milwaukee Commuter Rail Plans Go Nowhere (Journal Sentinel)
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