- US Spends Billions on Oil Subsidies; Americans Paying Lowest Gas Taxes in History (NYT, USA Today)
- Daily News Sees Private Vans as Transit System of the Future
- Nice New York Mag Feature on "The Glaring Intelligence" of BRT
- Deadly Drunk Driving Mars July 4 Weekend (Post)
- With Criminal Charges Looming, Dems Looking to Dump Espada (Post 1, 2)
- Port Authority Uses Toll Increase to Fund PATH Station Improvements (1010WINS)
- José Peralta Jockeys for Spot as Top MTA Basher (SAS)
- Assaults, Spitting Attacks on Transit Workers Continue (AMNY)
- Talk About Fare-Beating: Livery Cars Won't Pay Sales Tax, So Albany Just Exempts Them (Post)
- Region's Power Brokers Form Coalition to Decongest Airports (Crain's)
- Auto-Dependency's Logical Extreme: Car For Blind Drivers Set for 2011 Release (Transpo Nation)
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