- More Problems for Seattle's Tunnel-Digging Bertha (Next City)
- Major Changes Could Be in Store for Boston's Over-Budget Green Line Extension (WBUR)
- Self-Driving Cars May Get Here Before We're Ready (NYT)
- Mother Jones on How Self-Driving Cars Could Revolutionize Public Space
- California Releases New Guidance on Replacing "Level of Service" With VMT (CP&DR)
- More Evidence of Inequity in Bike-Share Systems (CityLab)
- FRA Stepping Up Enforcement of Regulations, Fee Collections (The Hill)
- Controversy Over Plan to Add Bike Lane in Jacksonville (Florida Times-Union)
- Undercover Orlando Cops to Target Unsafe Drivers, Pedestrians (Central Florida Future)
- Pedestrian Deaths Increasing in D.C. Area (WTOP)
- Boston's MBTA Has Highest Breakdown Rate in 2014 of U.S. Transit Systems (Boston Globe)
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