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8:38 AM EST on November 17, 2011

    • Here It Comes: House Leadership Rolls Out Five-Year Transpo Bill Today (Transpo Nation)
    • Not Just Oil: Mica Says Coal Mining Is Another Good Way to Fund Transpo (The Hill)
    • CREW Digs Into Mica's Campaign Donors -- Not Surprisingly, It's a Lot of Infrastructure Biz
    • Compromise Budget Keeps TIGER, Kills TIGGER (Transpo Issues Daily)
    • VMT: The "Creepy" Factor (Atlantic Cities)
    • A Visual Tour of Twelve of the World's Car-Free Urban Zones (NatGeo)
    • Top Five Myths About Bike-Sharing (GJEL blog)
    • DC Leads Nation in Hit-and-Run Fatalities (WTOP)
    • Federal Financing Falls Into Place For Phase 2 of Dulles Rail (WaPo)
    • Detroit Buses Get an "F" From Their Own Riders (MLive)
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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