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Koch-Backed Groups Preemptively Come Out Against Gas Tax Hike (Bloomberg) Sound Transit Releases Flyover Video of Future Ballard-West Seattle Route (Times) Suburbs Try to Figure Out How to Hook Into Nashville Transit (WSMV) Fight Continues Over Whether to Make Major Asheville Road More or Less Dangerous (Citizen-Times) Savannah Has Fallen Behind on Bike Infrastructure (Connect […]

Maryland Knew Baltimore Metro Needed ‘Emergency Repairs’ in November (Sun) Nashville Transit Opponents Take to the Airwaves (Tennessean) Even Transit-Friendly Seattle Isn’t Immune to Bikelash (KOMO) Boston’s Green Line Leads the Nation in Light-Rail Derailments (Herald) Arizona Gives Waymo First Driverless Ride-Hailing Permit in U.S. (Bloomberg) Charlotte Residents Mad About Streetcar Construction (WSOC) Amazon Failure […]

Trump Wants to Erode 150 Years of Federal Support for Infrastructure (Seattle Times) You Could Double What We Spend on Walking and Biking With a 1 Cent Gas Tax (Mobility Lab) Elon Musk Has Started Hyperloop Digging in D.C. and WaPo Is Skeptical Positive Train Control Could Prevent a Crash Every Other Day (Charleston Post and […]

Welp, Another Trump “Infrastructure Week” Is in the Books (WaPo, Reuters) More Cities and States Are Taxing Ride-Hailing Services (NYT) Trump Infrastructure “Plan” Would End New Starts and TIGER Grants (Newsday) Minneapolis Mayor: Future of Streetcar Line in Doubt (Star Tribune) Lyft Will Sponsor Five Baltimore Bike-Share Stations (The Drive, WaPo) Almost All Sidewalks Along […]

So Much for Infrastructure Week 2.0 (Huffington Post) Florida Can’t Afford Access to Trump Infrastructure Funds (Miami Herald) Dallas Needs More Bike Lanes to Make Bike-Share Work (Morning News) Baltimore Bike Lanes Delayed Again Over Fire Truck Access Concerns (Sun) Tax on Uber/Lyft Trips Would Fund Atlanta Mass Transit (WXIA) Seattle Group Launches Kickstarter to […]

Trump Actually Plans to Cut $40 Billion From Infrastructure Spending (The Nation) Trump’s Infrastructure Plan Leaves Small Cities Behind (Wired) Budget Eliminates Funding for Seattle, Spokane Transit Projects (Olympian) Leaked Plans Show 12-Mile Austin Light Rail System (KUT/Austin Monitor) Georgia Bill Would Create and Fund Regional Atlanta Transit System (AJC, WABE) Next Step Could Be Transit […]