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8:42 AM EDT on July 16, 2012

    • Ten Things You Need to Know About the MAP-21 Transportation Bill (T4America)
    • After All That, Mica Doesn't Even Brag About Transpo Bill In Campaign Ad (The Hill)
    • Villaraigosa Got His America Fast Forward Program But It Still Won't Fund LA Transit (LAT)
    • Most Transpo Programs Safe From Debt-Ceiling-Era Automatic Budget Cuts -- But Not All (TID)
    • End the $1 Trillion Annual Subsidy for Carbon and Tax It Instead (Oil Price)
    • Atlanta Transpo Referendum: 52% Transit/48% Roads. Alternative: 100% Toll Roads (AJC)
    • A Call For Normal-Speed Rail on the Northeast Corridor (Delaware Online)
    • Roads Aren't Subsidized As Much As Transit, But They Get a Boost From Bad Zoning (City Journal)
    • Wisconsin Pols Find New Reasons to Be Anti-Smart Growth: Agenda 21, Hysteria (Wisconsin Watch)
    • DC's Southwest Eco-District Will Finally Heal the Wounds of Urban Renewal Gone Awry (Grist)
    • Do You Need Bicycle Insurance? (Gazette)
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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