- Blumenauer Snags Bipartisan Support for Bike Bill (Politico)
- Foxx Takes on Distracted Driving in HuffPo
- AP Lays Out Details of the $2.3B Pennsylvania Transpo Bill
- New APTA/USTA Report (PDF) Shows It Pays to Connect Airports with Rail (Metro Mag)
- Will New Orleans' Complete Streets Rub Off on Baton Rouge? (225 Baton Rouge)
- ... And Will The Two Cities Get a Rail Link? (The Advocate)
- Virginia Is For Transit Lovers, According to WaPo
- How Does the Length of Your Commute Affect Your Political Engagement? (NPR)
- Cincinnati.com: Time to Increase Transit Funding
- GrowSmart Maine VP Defines Smart Growth as "Get Drunk, Walk Home" (Sun Journal)
- Minneapolis Adopts TOD Policy (Progressive Railroading)
- Is Eugene, OR, a Smart Growth Success Story? (Eugene Weekly)
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