- Obama Infrastructure Stimulus Plan: Ambitious, Still Vague (Grist, NYT)
- Bill Thompson: Raising Car Registration Fees Could Net $1B/Year for MTA (NYT, News, Post)
- Driver Kills Pedestrian Under FDR Drive in Harlem, Charged With Vehicular Manslaughter (News)
- Reduced Transit Service Means Longer Trips for 1.3M Straphangers (News)
- Bus Riders Fear Getting Stranded by MTA Cuts (NYT)
- Kerry, Specter Introduce Bill to Fund High-Speed Rail (Boston Globe)
- WaPo: Raise the Gas Tax
- Is the Moment Ripe for a National Carbon Tax? (Grist)
- Former Michigan Sen. Spencer Abraham: Save Detroit (NYT)
- Post Gives DOT Brass the Lee Sander Treatment
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