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8:34 AM EDT on September 15, 2011

    • Americans Are Driving Less. Our Public Policy Should Reflect That (HuffPo)
    • MD Republicans Want to Fund Rural Roads, Not Urban Transit (Baltimore Sun)
    • If Better Infrastructure, Safety, and Air Quality Are Worth Having, They're Worth Paying For (Times News)
    • NYC Bike-Share Goes For Gold (Streetsblog NYC)
    • Why Does Mica Love TIFIA and Hate the Infrastructure Bank? (Transpo Nation)
    • Next Week, 15 Cities Urge Congress: "Don't X Out Transportation" (T4America)
    • To Fund Jobs Plan, Obama Revives Idea of Repealing Oil and Gas Subsidies (Climate Progress)
    • Obama's Got the Right Idea on Jobs -- But We Don't Need Ideas, We Need Money (Brookings)
    • GOP Rep's Parody of a Jobs Bill Cuts Corporate Tax to Zero (The Hill)
    • New Orleans, Santa Fe, Omaha and 8 Other Cities Named Bicycle-Friendly Communities (Bike League)
    • We Miss You, John Wanamaker (RPUS)
    • Buffalo Goes Sustainable (Buffalo Rising)
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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