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The Federal Transportation Trust Fund Is Still Going Broke Under Trump’s Plan (NBC) Cyclists Are At the Mercy of Drivers Even When They Follow the Law (Bicycling) Lawmakers Inch Closer to Dedicated Funding Source for DC Metro (Post) Whether It’s BRT or Rail, It Must Be Fast and Frequent, Experts Tell Tampa Bay Times Transit […]

Indiana Lawmakers Reconsider Light Rail Ban in Hopes of Luring Amazon (Indy Star) Georgia Lawmakers Mull Expanding MARTA and Rebranding It “The ATL” (WABE) Trump’s Infrastructure Plan Favors Wealthy Areas Over Poor Ones (Quartz) Republicans Tired of Waiting for Trump’s Infrastructure Plan (Politico) NIMBYs and Republicans Are Trying to Stop Minneapolis’s Southwest Line (Star Trib) […]

Trump Infrastructure Plan Leans Heavily on Cities and States (Governing) Koch-Backed Group Will Try to Defeat Nashville Transit Referendum (Tennessean) Gimenez Blames Absentee Workers — Not Funding Cuts — for Dirty Miami Trains (Herald) Metro Detroit Leaders Want to Improve Transit But Don’t Know How (MLive) Downtown Atlanta Development Could Kill Plans for Future Rail […]

VA Legislature Will Tackle Metro Funding This Session (Richmond Times-Dispatch) Express-News: Rapid Transit Corridors Could Transform San Antonio Electric Bike-Share Will Help Minneapolis Residents Pedal Through Snow (Curbed) What Made a Top MARTA Official Want to Embezzle $500,000? (AJC) Nashville Transit Referendum Will Be a Tough Fight (Scene) NH Gov. Sununu’s Commuter Rail Proposal Gets […]

Outline of Trump Infrastructure Plan Leaked to Axios Tampa Bay Times Has More Detail on Proposed Bus Rapid Transit Sharrows Don’t Do a Whole Lot of Good Most of the Time (Bicycling) Drivers Were Left Out of Uber’s IPO Windfall (L.A. Times) South Phoenix Light Rail Enters Final Planning Stage (New Times) Lawsuit Seeks to […]

Trump’s Infrastructure Plan Will Include Little, If Any, Actual Funding (Reuters) MARTA Proposes BRT From Midtown Atlanta to Georgia State Development (ABC) Forward Pinellas Leader Talks Complete Streets in Tampa Area (Leader) Kansas City Will Move Ahead With Streetcar Expansion Despite Ballot Defeat (Star) Portland Calls Adaptive Bike-Share for People With Disabilities a Success (Next […]