- Ed Glaeser on Why So Much Infrastructure Spending Is Wasted (Vox)
- Adie Tomer: It Will Take More Than Light Rail to Fix U.S. Transit (NextCity)
- Anthony Foxx Says He Expects Automakers to Voluntarily Comply with New Safety Guidelines (Reuters)
- Planners Will Try to Fix a Sprawling Section of Suburban Maryland (NYT)
- Mexico Bets on Gondolas (Japan Times)
- Gentrification and Bike Lanes -- The Guardian Considers the Connection
- Pedestrian Deaths Up 60 Percent This Year in Minnesota (Star Tribune)
- Cleveland Will Test Connected Buses (Plain Dealer)
- U.S.'s First "Dutch-Style" Unsignalized Intersection Installed at Texas A&M (TTI)
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