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8:39 AM EDT on October 7, 2011

    • Procedural Wrestling Match Robs Sen. McConnell of His Plan to Foil Obama Jobs Bill (TPM)
    • Obama, Again, Confuses "Functionally Obsolete" and "Structurally Deficient" (The Hill)
    • LA Embraces Urban Street Design As Anti-Obesity Tactic (Atlantic Cities)
    • New Jersey Town Becomes a Transit Village, Whether It Wants To Or Not (NYT)
    • Chicago Struggles to Bring Transit to State of Good Repair (NYT)
    • Suburbanist Joel Kotkin Tells Nashville to Give Up on the Dream of Light Rail (Tennessean)
    • Five Cities Where Transit Riders Are Richer Than Drivers (Atlantic Cities)
    • Peak Oil = When the Cheap Stuff Is Gone And We End Up Drilling in the Arctic (WaPo)
    • Affordable Housing Advocates Fight to Keep Parking Minimums They Can Then Waive (CP&DR)
    • Paris Leads the Way Toward the Future of Car-Sharing: The One Way Rental (Transport Politic)
    • Texas Teens Get Drivers License Without Taking Driver Safety Class (BusinessWire)
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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