- Hurricane Harvey Recovery: Houston Metro Resumes Service Today On Some Key Bus Routes (Chronicle)
- In Wake of Hurricane Harvey, Gas Prices Have Risen 7 Cents Nationwide In Past Week (CBS, Vox)
- Did Houston's Sprawling Land Use Exacerbate Flooding? It's Complicated (Chronicle, Strong Towns)
- White House Briefs State, Local Officials On What Infrastructure Plan Could Eventually Look Like (Hill 1, 2)
- Virginia Study Panel: State Needs New Taxes To Replace Expiring Transit Funds (Daily Press, WTOP)
- Coalition Forms To Support Nashville Mayor's Transit Referendum, To Be Unveiled In October (Tennessean)
- Meanwhile, In Portland: Coalition Forms To Oppose ODOT's Freeway Widening Plans (BikePortland)
- Expensive, But Effective: Security Bollards Keep People Safe From Terrorism And Everyday Carnage (Slate)
- Taras Grescoe: We Need Car-Free Streets, Not Just Bollards, For Safe And Pleasant Cities (NY Times)
- Almost, But Not Quite, Car-Free: Greater Greater Washington Checks Out Nine Blocks Of Shared Space
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