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8:49 AM EDT on July 7, 2015

    • Welcome to July and Yet Another Countdown to Highway Trust Fund Insolvency (WaPo)
    • Pew Takes a Comprehensive Look at How States Are Making Ends Meet on Transportation
    • Poll: 53 Percent Say Spend More on Highways, 40 Percent Say Spend More on Transit (The Hill)
    • "Go New Haven, Go" Program Rewards Residents for Non-Car Transportation (NBC)
    • Maine Governor OK's $85 Million Bond Issue for Transportation (TI News Daily)
    • Toronto Bike-Share Set to Double in Size (Star)
    • Tampa Bike Share Celebrates Its 10,000th Rider (Tampa Bay Times)
    • Electric Self-Driving Taxis Could Cut GHGs By 19-20ths  (MIT Tech Review)
    • A Better Way for Waze to Relieve Congestion: Taking Cars Off the Road (Apple Insider)
    • A Lesson from Streetscamp on How We Engineer Bad Behavior on Our Streets -- And How to Stop (GGW)
    • Innovations in Transpo Technology Mean "Being Car-less Will Get Even More Affordable" (CheatSheet)
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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