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8:54 AM EDT on July 5, 2011

    • Stop Subsidizing Cars and Parking, It's More Economically Sound to Build Bike Lanes (NYT)
    • Get Ready For the Introduction of House and Senate Transportation Bills (National League of Cities)
    • British Experience Shows Privatization of Rail Leaves Taxpayers Unprotected (Guardian)
    • Florida's Bad Decision on HSR Hurts U.S. Ability to Compete With China (Transport Politic)
    • Canadian Study Shows Low-Income, Urban Kids Walk and Bike to School More (Winnipeg Free Press)
    • New York Will Have to Make the Streets Safer to Close the Cycling Gender Gap (NYT)
    • Taiwan Has Its Gender Gap Too: Women Walk and Take Transit, Men Bike (Focus Taiwan)
    • A 25-Year-Old Law to Protect the Columbia River Gorge Has Managed to Prevent Sprawl (AP)
    • CA Activists Try to Stop Highway Widening Through Redwood Grove (AP)
    • Environmental Concerns Also Prompt Violent Protests in Italy Against HSR (BBC, AFP)
    • Protestor Against Helmet Laws Dies in Crash; Helmet Would Have Saved Him (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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