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The 1950s Called, and They Want Their Transportation Bill Back

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

New Republican Highway Bill Nixes National Infrastructure Bank

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

E. Coli to Become Source for Biofuel

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.

New York City Now Has Bike Lanes, But What About Bike Trains?

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.

Highway Shutdown to Paralyze America’s Second-Largest City

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.

Biofuel Crops to Grow at Metro Detroit Airport

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

Biking Our Way Out of Economic Uncertainty

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.

Revenge of the Conventional Cars: Hybrids Kicked Out of Carpool Lanes

Hybrid owners in Los Angeles haven’ t just been saving gas and money thanks to their choice in cars: They’ ve also been saving time.

Bikelash in Arlington, TX

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.

GAO Slams DC Metro Governance

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.