- Two-Thirds of Americans Don't Want a 20-Cent Gas Tax Hike (The Hill, Governing, CNN, Politico)
- Three Ways This Round of TIGER Is Different (Transpo Issues Daily)
- WaPo Suggests Five Hypotheses to Explain Why More Young People Are Going Car-Free
- AAA: The Cost of Car Ownership Rises to $9,122 a Year (USA Today)
- Europe Sells Two Bikes For Every Car (ePedalar)
- Americans Bought As Many E-Bikes As E-Cars Last Year (Yale Environment 360)
- 40 Percent of On-the-Job Deaths Due to Transportation Crashes (Not Freak Explosions) (Bloomberg)
- Toronto Discusses How to Handle Bixi's Debt Problem (Star)
- Fort Worth Bike-Share Launches (Star-Telegram)
- Madison Gets Creative With Trike-Share -- Cargo Bikes By the Hour (B-Cycle)
- Americans Believe Global Warming Is Real, They Just Don't Really Care (WaPo)
- Texas Instruments, Peace Corps, World Bank Named Bike-Friendly Businesses (Bike League)
- Walking Can Help Stave Off Dementia, If You Don't Get Hit By a Car First (Atlantic Cities)
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