- Frustrated With Judge's Delay, Maryland Asks for Emergency Ruling to Allow Purple Line to Proceed (WaPo)
- King County Metro Adds More Buses to Serve Flood of Amazon Interns (Seattle Times)
- Higher Fares, Less Service, More Disruptions, Fewer Riders: WMATA's "Death Spiral" (WAMU)
- South Carolina Transit Struggles With Lack of Funding and Sprawling, Car-Dependent Cities (Post and Courier)
- Suburban Fulton County, Outside Atlanta, Begins Work on Transit Master Plan (AJC)
- Officials Begin Planning to Tame Extra-Wide Streets in Downtown Rochester, NH (Fosters.com)
- Undoing a Parking Crater: Akron Seeks Ideas for Downtown, Which Is One-Third Parking Lots (Cleveland.com)
- Employers Should Allow Their Workers to Accept Cash Instead of Free Parking as a Commuting Perk (NRDC)
- The Barnes Dance "Pedestrian Scramble" Makes a Comeback (Governing)
- Pop-Up Bike Lane Gets Use in Elk River, MN (Star News)
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