What costs $230 billion and shortchanges pedestrian and bicycle safety and already cash-strapped urban transit systems?

Yesterday, details leaked of Congressman John Mica (R-PA) proposed bill for funding the U.S. government’s transportation priorities through 2018.

Earlier this summer, a deadly strain of E. coli made it dangerous to eat salad or other uncooked vegetables in Germany throughout most of Europe. It’s because of that scare it may come as a surprise to hear scientists are working to engineer E. coli to become a source for biodiesel.

AltTransport readers have already done the math and know that mass transit systems that allow commuters to bring their bicycles on board add up to something more than the sum of their parts.

This New York Times article on the planned, 53-hour mid-July shutdown of the Los Angeles area’s Interstate 405 has the same hysterical, nearly apocalyptic tone as an Onion article. Apparently for two days, residents of America’s second city will be marooned in their own homes, forced to resort to pre-industrial means of transportation.

The fallow land running alongside airport runways may just be the next farmland.

With employment flatlining stateside and at least one major western economy on the verge of collapse, it’s worth asking whether there are any surefire means of stimulating the economy.

Arlington, TX, the largest US city without public transit, narrowly approved a weakened Bike Plan this week after outraged opposition fought the plan with a litany of criticism.

After the Red Line crash of 2009, which killed nine people and brought untold humiliation to the Washington Metro Area Transit Authority, senator Barbara Mikulski (D-MD) requested a Government Accountability Office report on the capitol region’s public transit system.

The Obama administration announced earlier this week that the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration and the Environmental Protection Agency are working toward a fuel economy fleet-average standard of 56.2 miles per gallon by 2025.