- Congress Might Actually Pass a Budget! (WaPo)
- Bipartisan Lawmakers Launch Congressional Public-Private Partnerships Caucus (Transpo Issues Daily)
- Truckers Apprehensive About Blumenauer's New VMT Bill (The Trucker)
- Blumenauer's Plan to Raise the Gas Tax Is the Best and Least Popular Idea in Washington (Slate)
- If GM Is Now So Profitable, Why Did Taxpayers Lose $10.5 Billion on the Bailout? (The Hill)
- The First Transit Super Bowl? (NJ.com, Fox)
- California HSR Has Suffered Setbacks, Yes. But Death Throes? Not Quite. (Streetsblog LA)
- California' Riverside County Get $75 Million Federal Grant for New Commuter Line (SF Gate)
- SF Protestors Object to Two-Tiered Transpo System: Googly and Non-Googly (Salon)
- Eugene Students' Buffered Bike Lane Idea Could Become Reality (Bike Portland)
- Do All Transit Agencies Have Holiday Gift Swag As Cool As Toronto's? (BlogTO)
- Simple Suburban Retrofits: Before and After Photos (Switchboard)
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