TN MOVING STORIES: Europe Tests Self-Driven Road Train, Traffic Estimates Disputed for NJ Meadowlands Mall/Entertainment Center

Top stories on TN:
Big Plans for Public Transportation in Virginia. It’s called Super NoVa. (link)
Montana Highway Opening Delayed By Snow and Ice (link)
NY To Get Bigger East River Ferries for Weekend Travel (link)
Crowds Flock to NY’s Penn Station for Memorial Day Weekend Travel (link)

A rail locomotive rendered in sand (photo courtesy of the Virginia Museum of Transportation's Facebook page)

Gas prices fell going into the holiday weekend -- and this summer are likely to remain well below the $4 or $5 per gallon that some had feared. (Wall Street Journal)

Musician David Byrne: NYC's bike share program is a game-changer that will "make New Yorkers rethink their city and rewrite the mental maps we use to decide what is convenient, what is possible." (New York Times)

Today's most valuable real estate can be found in walkable urban locations. (New York Times; opinion) And you can hear Andrea Bernstein talking to Chris Leinberger about this issue in our 2011 documentary:  Back Of the Bus: Mass Transit, Race, and Inequality.

A convoy of self-driven cars completed a 125-mile test drive on a Spanish highway -- the European Commission's first public test of its research project known as SARTE - Safe Road Trains for the Environment. (BBC)

Enacting a new surface transportation bill did not make it onto the list of summer legislative priorities announced last Friday by House Majority Leader Eric Cantor. (Transportation Issues Daily)

Although state officials say traffic impacts for the the still-to-be-completed American Dream Meadowlands mall/entertainment center will be "minimal," some New Jerseyans doubt it -- like one local mayor, who calls it "outright misinformation, and an attempt to create a project without having to do the proper infrastructure work.” (The Record)

Sacramento Regional Transit has broken ground on one of its most ambitious projects ever, a $270 million southern rail extension that aims to give commuters an alternative to Highway 99, the most congested freeway in the region. (Sacramento Bee)

The Department of Homeland Security has asked technology companies to come up with a hand-held scanner that could replace the airport pat-down. (Marketplace)

Roanoke's rail history, rendered in sand sculptures. (WSLS)

BYD Co., the Chinese auto maker backed by Warren Buffett, faces a setback after one of its e6 vehicles caught fire in a collision that killed three people in the southern Chinese city of Shenzhen. (Wall Street Journal)

New York City is unveiling an interactive online map that allows drivers to find up-to-date parking regulations for any given street. (New York Post)

To promote the Leaf's Australian launch, Nissan transformed 37 gas pumps into creative pieces, including a jukebox, a gumball machine, a birdcage, and a fish tank. (PSFK)