—Deja Vu All Over Again. The good news for Boston's Big Dig is that the money the project is suing to get back from contractors may help make up for $110 million more in new cost overruns. The official price tag, then, will remain $14.625 billion, up just a bit more than 700% from the original estimate of $2 billion.

—Aging El. Chicago's rail system is in need of serious repair, and some think the problem is Daley's crony-fied control of the CTA. Then again, see the Big Dig item above for the perils of rule by public authority.

—Boggled Viaduct. Planetizen posts a podcast on what's next in Seattle, following an advisory referenda in which voters rejected two bad plans for replacing the Alaskan Viaduct, a key waterfront highway that's been in need of replacement since sustaining damage in a 2001 earthquake.

—Yesterday's Train of Tomorrow, Today.