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8:56 AM EDT on October 13, 2016

    • Obama: Self-Driving Cars Must Work for Everybody (Wired)
    • DC Officials Consider 1-Cent Sales Tax to Fund Metro (WaPo)
    • Anthony Foxx: Next President Will Formalize Self-Driving Car Rules (Detroit News)
    • NJ Transit a "Cautionary Tale of Neglect" (NYT)
    • Milwaukee Receives Federal Grant to Study Streetcar Extension (Urban Milwaukee)
    • Study: Suburbs Will Get Denser, More Diverse (Curbed)
    • San Francisco Lets Guerrilla Bike Lane Stay Put (CityLab)
    • The People Who Need Transit Most Have the Least Access to It (Treehugger)
    • Congestion in Vancouver Area Shopping Mall Parking Lot Traps Drivers for 4 Hours (Daily Hive)
Angie Schmitt

Angie Schmitt is the author of Right of Way: Race, Class and the Silent Epidemic of Pedestrian Deaths in America, and the former editor of Streetsblog USA.

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