- Obama Signs $305 Billion Five-Year Transportation Bill (The Hill)
- What Did Lobbyists Get Out of the Bill? (NRDC Switchboard)
- Money-Losing Amtrak Routes Could Be Opened Up to Private Competition (WSJ)
- Minnesota's Growing Divide Between Urban and Rural (StarTrib)
- How Did D.C.'s Streetcar Project Careen Off the Tracks? (WaPo)
- Irony in Detroit: Downtown Recovery a Threat to Auto Showing Parking (Crain's Detroit)
- Seattle Could Get Second Downtown Light-Rail Tunnel (Columbian)
- Connecticut, Amtrak Agree to Finish Hartford Line (Daily Voice)
- Self-Driving Cars Could Either Clear or Clog City Streets (Technica.ly Philly)
- Grants Fund Bike Projects for Central Iowa (Quad City Times)
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