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Auto Executives Admit Driverless Cars Are Pretty Far Off (Jalopnik) Virginia and Maryland Will Study Dedicated Funding for Metro (WaPo) Charlotte’s Blue-Line Extension Opens March 16 (WFAE, Observer) What’s Next for Seattle Bike-Share? (Curbed) E-Bikes, for One Thing (Also Curbed) Twin Cities Suburbs Advocate for Blue Line Extension (Star Tribune) HART Board Addresses Complaints About […]

Does Trump Support Public-Private Partnerships or Not? (WaPo) Major Transit Projects in Boston, Miami, St. Louis, and Elsewhere Open in 2018 (Transport Politic) Tampa Bay Times: Legislature Shouldn’t Attach Strings to Transit Funding MARTA’s All-New Train Cars Will Have Wi-Fi (WABE) Bike Group Calls for Complete Streets in New Orleans (The Lens) Post and Courier Wants […]

BRT in Indianapolis, Rail in Seattle, and More Transit Projects to Watch in 2018 (Next City) FTA Signs Off on Kansas City Streetcar Expansion (Business Journal) The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Previews Mayor “Bike Lane” Bill Peduto’s Second Term D.C.-Baltimore Maglev Debate Grows More Heated (WaPo) Meet Route 130, the Deadliest Road in South Jersey (Philadelphia Inquirer) […]

U.S. Car Sales Are Falling—But the Cars Are Bigger (NYT) High-Speed Rail Opponent Wants to Head House Transpo Committee (LA Times) FHWA Bans Flashing Beacons at Crosswalks Over Patent Issue (WTSP) D.C. Metro Safety Group Blows Past Deadline to Start Work (WaPost) D.C. Law Prohibits Gas Stations From Being Redeveloped (WAMU) Omaha Wants to Widen […]

Trump’s Infrastructure Plan Is All About Making Road-Builders Rich (Newsweek) Washington DOT Hopes Bus-Only Shoulder Lane Will Ease Seattle Traffic (Q13) If the Milwaukee Streetcar Is Free, People Will Flip When It’s Not Free Anymore (Urban Milwaukee) Curbed Expects Further Expansion of Detroit Transit in 2018 Ignore the Clutter: Bike-Share Will Benefit Dallas (Morning News) […]

As Ridership Falls, DC Metro Mulls Complete Overhaul (WaPo) Minneapolis Council Wants to Make D-Line BRT a Higher Priority (Star-Tribune) Columbus’s First BRT Line Is Running and Free This Week (Underground) After a Year of Scandals, Uber Takes a $20 Billion Haircut (Vanity Fair) These Are the Most Dangerous Intersections in Texas (Houston Press) Next […]