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8:36 AM EST on December 15, 2014

    • USA Today Calls Transpo Bill a "Big Maybe" on Boehner, McConnell's To-Do List
    • Senate Still to Vote on Transit Benefit (WaPo)
    • Crude Oil Rail Transport Expands Over Objections of Unprepared Communities (Business Insider)
    • State Officials Insist on Removing Trees for "Road Safety" in Louisville (WHAS11)
    • 78 Years Later, Spokane Regrets Burning that Streetcar, Turns Back to Transit (Spokesman-Review)
    • Retired Army Official Slams George Will for Criticizing Safe Routes to School (Post-Gazette)
    • "Vancouver 24 Hrs" Publishes Pro and Con on Sales Tax for Transit
    • Why Is Paris Restricting Driving? Because the Champs-Elysées is a "Canyon of Pollution" (Salon)
    • Add Poland to the List of Countries With More Advanced Rail Than the U.S. (PressTV)
Tanya Snyder
Tanya became Streetsblog's Capitol Hill editor in September 2010 after covering Congress for Pacifica Radio’s Washington bureau and for public radio stations around the country. She lives car-free in a transit-oriented and bike-friendly neighborhood of Washington, DC.

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