- House Committee to Hold Hearing on "Skyrocketing" Cost of CA HSR (Hill)
- NTSB Calls for Banning Driver Cell Phone Use (NY Times)
- Cell Phone Industry Reacts, Does Not Want to Restrict "Manual" Phone Use in Cars (Hill)
- Ray LaHood Kicks Off Nationwide Crackdown on Drunk Driving (FastLane)
- US Government Backs Detroit’s Regional Transit Plan (Detroit News)
- New Passenger Rail Service to Connect Chicago, Quad Cities, by 2014 (Examiner)
- Who Really Pays for Roads? (Buffalo Rising)
- What Ever Happened to San Francisco’s Performance-Based Parking? (GGW)
- One Pedestrian Advocate Celebrates Potholes (Grist)
- How Parking Spaces Define Cities – a Graphic Comparison (Old Urbanist)
- China Daily, China’s English Newspaper, Calls for National Bicycle Infrastructure
- Facebook Promotes Bicycle Commuting for Employees (Patch Palo Alto)
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