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Feds Announce Major Funding for Amtrak’s NJ-NY Gateway Project (CBS Local, Railway Age) NHTSA Issues Recommendations for Driverless Cars (The Hill) Can a Makeover Turn Around America’s Busiest Transit Center? (Good, Atlantic Cities) In California, High-Stakes Trial for High-Speed Rail (Mercury News) Study: Commuters Want Better Transit Tech (Wired) Montgomery County, MD, Gets New Planning … Continued

By Katie Pearce

9:07 AM EDT on May 31, 2013

Feds Announce Major Funding for Amtrak’s NJ-NY Gateway Project (CBS Local, Railway Age)
NHTSA Issues Recommendations for Driverless Cars (The Hill)
Can a Makeover Turn Around America’s Busiest Transit Center? (Good, Atlantic Cities)
In California, High-Stakes Trial for High-Speed Rail (Mercury News)
Study: Commuters Want Better Transit Tech (Wired)
Montgomery County, MD, Gets New Planning Director (GGW), Makes Way for New Bike Lanes (Patch)
Bike Portland From Copenhagen: Kids are the Real Test of “Bike-Friendly” Cities
Light Rail Prospect Stirs Debate in Tampa (Tampa Bay)
A Call for “No Child Left Inside” at CNU 21 in Salt Lake (Next City)
Check Out Condensed Maps of the World’s Largest Bike-Sharing Systems (Quartz)

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