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8:41 AM EDT on August 2, 2011

    • More On the Debt Deal And What It Means For the Transportation Bill (T4America)
    • "Flexibility" to Ignore Cycling Not Enough? GOP Sens. Want to Let States Ignore Transit Too (LandLine)
    • Car-Chained Americans Unite! You Have Nothing to Lose But Bad Bread (NYT)
    • Media Coverage of Raquel Nelson Finally Mentions Street Design (NPR)
    • If You Build It, They Will Ride (Safely): NYC Cycling Up 62%, Crashes Down For All Road Users (Road.cc)
    • Red-Light Cameras Reduce Crashes 28% But Drivers Still Hate Them (Houston Chronicle)
    • Banks Demolishing Foreclosed Homes to Avoid Devaluing Neighboring Homes (Grist)
    • Fast-Growing Curbside Bus Industry Takes Riders Off Trains, Not Out of Cars (Transpo Nation)
    • Blame Housing Sprawl -- Not Immigrants -- For the Devastation Caused By Wildfires (ABC)
    • An Impassioned Plea to Keep E-Bikes Off Bike Trails (Coloradoan)
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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