- Fox News, Daily Caller Delete Post Encouraging Readers to Ram Protestors With Cars (CNN)
- New Trump Order Would Make It Easier to Build Infrastructure Susceptible to Flooding (NYT, Reuters)
- NRDC Poll: Americans Don't Support Trump's Draconian Transit Cuts
- Wealthy Donors and Foundations Fund Bike Infrastructure When Cities Are Too Slow to Act (WSJ)
- Will Portland Backslide As a Transportation Leader With Plan to Widen Expressways? (City Observatory)
- WMATA to Slow Metro Trains, Again, Reducing Top Speed From 45 to 35 MPH (GGW via WaPo)
- DC's Outer Beltway Would Do Nothing to Solve Suburb-to-Suburb Commute Woes (GGW)
- Randal O'Toole: Maryland Shouldn't Build Purple Line, Because Driverless Cars Will Maybe Happen (WaPo)
- "Historic Low" Ridership Leads Savannah-Area Transit Authority to Consider Service Cuts (Morning News)
- Even in Paris, Police Battle Plans to Install Protected Bike Lanes (Le Monde via CityMetric)
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