- NYT Editorial: U.S. DOT Is Taking Too Long to Require Trucker Training
- Even If the U.S. Opened High-Speed Rail Today, We'd Be 50 Years Behind Japan (Business Insider)
- Gov. Rick Snyder Says Transportation Is a Priority in Michigan's Lame Duck (Crain's)
- Utah's Transit and Smart Growth Investments Have Paid Off in Shorter Commutes (AP)
- The Fault in Our Toll Roads (Texas Tribune)
- Boulder Council Considers Experimenting With Protected Bike Lanes, Shared Streets (Camera)
- Homobiles: Transportation for the Vulnerable and the Fabulous (NPR)
- Georgia Trying Again With a Whole New SPLOST to Fund Transpo (And a Million Other Things) (MDJ)
- Bike-Share Is Coming to Tucson (JRN)
- People Respond to Massachusetts' Sane Gas Tax Policy With Crazy (Globe)
- Buses on Northern Virginia's Congested I-66 Will Get Their Own Slow Lane (WaPo)
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