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8:44 AM EST on December 11, 2012

    • Are More Cyclists Dying Because There Are More Cyclists? (LAT)
    • Transit Ridership Keeps On Rising -- So Don't Do Anything Stupid, Congress (APTA)
    • Six Reasons Why We Need a Carbon Tax (The Hill)
    • Surprise! Grover Norquist Is Against Raising the Gas Tax (WaPo)
    • Millenials' Urban Leanings Jump-Start Rental Apartment Boom (Mobilizing the Region)
    • In Which We All Turn Green With Envy Over Portland's 10.3% Bike-to-School Rate (BikePortland)
    • Philly Feels Left Out of the Bike-Share Trend, Wants Its Own System (CBS)
    • Tax Transit-Oriented Development in Connecticut to Pay For Road Projects? (Hartford Courant)
    • Let's Price Parking Like Gasoline (Or Better Yet, With Market Pricing) And Move On (GGW)
    • "Trying to Market a City Without Transit Is Like Trying to Sell a Cell Phone Without a Camera" (NJ)
    • China's Pedestrian Roundabout Shows What Non-Auto-Oriented Infrastructure Can Be (Inthralld)
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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