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9:03 AM EST on December 16, 2010

    • Dear Sen. Boxer, Please Bring Transpo System Into the 21st Century. Love, 65 CA Electeds (T4America)
    • NJ Could Get About Half of ARC Money Back to Use for Transit and Air Quality (Star Ledger)
    • Census Data Maps Demographics of Race, Income, Housing (NYT)
    • Value Capture from Real Estate is Funding Hong Kong's Transit Development (Transport Politic)
    • Road Deaths Down, Distracted Driving Fatalities Up (WSJ)
    • WaPo: VA Infrastructure Plan Is Too Puny to Satisfy the Need
    • Ex-Congressman Bob Barr Calls LaHood "Nanny in Chief" for Blocking Cell Phones (AJC)
    • Fighting Car-Centric Road Building in Seattle: An Interview with Cary Moon (Grist)
    • Utah Jump-Starting Transit-Oriented Development With Five New Projects (Salt Lake Tribune)
    • After Ballot Tax Defeat, Hillsborough County, Fla. Forages for Transit Funding (St. Petersburg Times)
    • Traffic-Choked Beijing Proposes Bikeshare, Congestion Pricing (Bloomberg)
    • Outgoing PA Gov. Rendell Pushes for Infrastructure Bank (AP)
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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