- Texas Spending $181M in Stimulus Cash on 15-Mile Highway Outside Houston (NYT)
- Most Transit Riders Support Bridge Tolls, But This Story Is All About the Ones Who Don't (NYT)
- Nation's Transit Systems Still in Crisis (WSJ)
- MTA Finance Board Votes Today on Doomsday Fare Hikes (Newsday)
- Paterson Expects State Leg to Blow Deadline on MTA Plan (Newsday)
- News Castigates Smith and Skelos for State Senate's Hold-Up of Transit Rescue
- Drunk Driver Crashes Into Queens Laundromat, Injuring Elderly Man (News)
- BID Wants to Give Flatbush Ave a Main Street Makeover (Bklyn Paper)
- Working Families Party Asks for "Consultation" on City's Land Use Decisions (Post)
- Status Report on Lower Manhattan Bike Lanes (Cyclosity)
- Virginia Takes Aim at Cul-de-Sacs (WaPo via Beyond DC via Streetsblog.net)
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