Market Street, San Francisco (Photo courtesy San Francisco Chronicle)

• Pump It Up (Commonwealth Magazine [1])
  The Bay State's debt-ridden transportation agencies preside over networks that are literally falling apart. New gas tax revenues may be the only way out.
  FOR A PICTURE-PERFECT view of the Boston skyline on a bright, cloudless day, looking from the Longfellow Bridge to the other side of the Charles River is as good as it gets. For scenery of a different sort, amble down the stairway near Storrow Drive and walk underneath the span that links Beacon Hill to Kendall Square. Take a look at the severely corroded steel supports and the black netting affixed to catch pieces of crumbling sidewalk. Not exactly Kodak moments.
  
  
• Seeing the forest and the trees (Commonwealth Magazine [2])
  Urban greenery can bring better health, more attractive neighborhoods, and even safer streets
  SEEN FROM A satellite high above, 29 percent of the city of Boston is hidden under the leafy canopy of trees during the summer months. That’s more shade than exists in many other cities, but it’s not enough. As scientists and social planners are discovering, trees are far more than mere ornaments to the urban landscape. The urban forest is a powerful force for social and environmental change. Trees reduce air and water pollution, save energy, increase property values, and improve the social networks that are the backbone of a healthy city.
  
  
• Cycle Mania! [Features Boston, Somerville, Cambridge and others] (CBS Sunday Morning [3])
  "Pedal Power" is coming into its own these days, as Americans of all ages are coming to realize biking can be practical, economical, and good clean fun - or should we say, good GREEN fun? Our Cover Story takes us from California to Cambridge, and is reported by Serena Altschul.
  Related: Re-cycling effort (Boston Globe [4])
  
  
• Making Cities More Walkable (NPR [5])
  While gas-thirsty cars are languishing in the garage, people are hopping on buses, riding bikes, and reverting to the most time-tested form of transportation: their feet. Alex Chadwick talks to Christopher Leinberger, visiting fellow at the Brookings Institution, about why urban planners are paying more attention to cities' "walkability."
  
  
• Plan to ban cars on part of Market St. (San Francisco Chronicle [6])
  SAN FRANCISCO -- San Francisco's Market Street from the Embarcadero to Hayes Valley would permanently close to all traffic except for city mass transit vehicles under a proposal announced at City Hall on Tuesday night. Supervisor Chris Daly asked the city attorney to draft legislation to permanently ban cars on Market Street between Octavia Boulevard and the Embarcadero, an idea that has been floated by various city leaders, including former Mayor Willie Brown, for more than a decade.
  
  
• Plan for Grand Street Cycle Track Features New Design Treatment (Streetsblog [7])
  DOT has unveiled plans for a Grand Street cycle track that bear the fingerprints of Danish planner Jan Gehl. It would be Manhattan's first cross-town protected bike path. Grand Street is narrower than Ninth Avenue, where the existing protected path runs. Whereas the Ninth Avenue cycle track uses signal timing to prevent conflicts between bikes and turning vehicles, the Grand Street plan uses what DOT is calling a "mixing zone," a space shared by cyclists and drivers at the approach to an intersection.

• Longfellow Bridge has concrete checkup (Metro Boston [8])
• Letter: More on Mass Ave. plan (South End News [9])
• Orange cone blues: Harvard Square construction a headache for many (Cambridge Chronicle [10])
• Lawmakers push for overhaul at Morton-Gallivan intersection (Dorchester Reporter [11])
• Advocates: Ramps poorly installed (Jamaica Plain Gazette [12])
• Pricier oil reins in local paving plans (Boston Globe [13])
• Main Street to close for cruise visitors (Gloucester Daily Times [14])
• Rte. 128 communities unite on traffic future (Boston Globe [15])
• Drivers make turn lane where none exists (Boston Globe [16])
• Seeing the forest and the trees (Commonwealth Magazine [17])

• Spare a few seconds for pedestrians? (Newton Streets and Sidewalks [18])

• Look Ma, no car! (Boston Globe [19])
• Bike racks popping up in Brookline (Brookline TAB [20])
• Riding to work (Arlington Advocate [21])
• Brown: People are asking: could I bicycle to work? (Belmont Citizen-Herald [22])
• Re-cycling effort (Boston Globe [23])
• Brookline bicyclists, motorists learn to share the road (Brookline TAB [24])
• A different kind of commute: bikers converge at City Hall Plaza event (Boston Globe Article [25], Photos [26])
• When it comes to 2 wheels, there are countless choices (Boston Globe [27])

• Are You Being Served? The Urban Ring (No Free Transfer [28])
• Amtrak's Downeaster ridership up 28 percent (Boston Metro [29], Boston Globe [30])
• Letter: Key impact on T riders (Boston Globe [31])
• Latino T workers take discrimination grievances to Patrick (Boston Globe [32])
• Commuters left in dark over CSX train delays (Worcester Telegram [33])
• What's up, dock? (Boston Globe [34])
• Red Line woes keep piling up (Dorchester Reporter [35])

• Some 'skeptical' over Common garage expansion (Boston Herald [36])
• Parking activist arrested (Somerville Journal [37])
• Parking boot (WHDH [38])
• More commuters opt for car pools as gas prices soar (Boston Globe [39])
• Gateway plans get finalized (Jamaica Plain Gazette [40])
• Letter: Boston should enable scooters (Boston Globe [41])

• Teens take ownership as they clean-up Franklin Park (Dorchester Reporter [42])
• Green space, red tape (South End News [43])
• Residents voice opinions on Albion Park (Somerville News [44])
• Letter: Botches Greenway (Boston Globe [45])

• Ikea project causes Wellington traffic fears (Medford Transcript [46])
• Boston wants public input on future of Christian Science Plaza (Boston Business Journal [47])
• Second meeting set to review Bayside plans (Dorchester Reporter [48])
• North Allston-Brighton neighbors push open space, community connections -- ASAP (Allston-Brighton TAB [49])
• Will Assembly Square development benefit East Somerville? (Somerville News [50])
• Condo, garage plan has neighbors shaken (Boston Globe [51])
• Panel hashes out housing proposal [Brookline] (Boston Globe [52])
• A tree shall bring them together [Somerville] (Boston Globe [53])

• What Kind of Housing? (Brookline Perspective [54])

• MBTA took overdue bill personally (Boston Herald [55])
• Letters in response to 7/17 Big Dig debt article [56] --
• Disillusionment turns to despair (Boston Globe [57])
• In long run, the benefits outweigh costs (Boston Globe [58])
• Our view: Big Dig debt means state must say 'No' to other plans (Newburyport Daily News [59])
• Do Gas Taxes Cover the Costs of Roads? (WorldChanging [60])
• Report: 43 Mass Pike Workers Earn $100,000-Plus (WBZ [61], WHDH [62])
• MBTA 'motorperson' taked in $193G (Boston Herald [63])
• Devil's in the details (New Bedford Standard-Times [64])
• Editorial: The billion-dollar bailout Mass. can't afford (Boston Globe [65])
• Police: rising fuel costs are 'major public safety issue' (Boston Herald [66])
• Mass. municipalities aim to boost efficiency (Boston Herald [67])
• Underfunded and overextended [MBTA] (Commonwealth Magazine [68])
• Pump It Up (Commonwealth Magazine [69])

• A Mall Overhaul (Newsweek [70])
• CTA to experiment with seatless rail cars (Chicago Tribune [71])
• CTA Bus Tracker online program adding more routes (Chicago Tribune [72])
• Williamsburg Walks! (Streetfilms [73])
• A long, hot ride for bike safety (Boston Globe [74])
• Portland, Ore., Rides Bikes Around High Gas Prices (NPR [75])
• Plan to ban cars on part of Market St. (San Francisco Chronicle [76])
• Queens Play Street (Streetfilms [77])
• Choosing a hot top for a greener parking lot (Boston Globe [78])

• Gas Prices Up = 3 out of 4 Cities in the US Have Seen Increases in Public Transit (Climate Atlas [79])
• Making Cities More Walkable (NPR [80])
• U.S. highway trust fund veers toward crisis (Los Angeles Times [81], Boston Globe [82])
• Soaring Gas Prices Forcing Changes in Transportation Policy (The Ground Floor [83])
• Traffic deaths fall as gas prices climb (Yahoo! News [84])
• Highway Funding: The Last Bastion of Socialism in America (Streetsblog [85])
• Building, Not Drilling, To Reduce Pain At The Pump (Huffington Post [86])
• Gas Conservation Threatens Road Funding (Wall Street Journal [87], The Overhead Wire [88])
• Renters go downtown to save on gas, commuting (AP [89])
• Letter: Solve the nation's transportation crisis (Boston Globe [90])
• Plan for Grand Street Cycle Track Features New Design Treatment (Streetsblog [91])
• Pedal Power (CBS News [92])
• Bicycle Mania! (CBS Sunday Morning [93])
  

• Electronic Road Pricing in Singapore Reduces Traffic Congestion (Chasing Clean Air [94])