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8:41 AM EDT on April 30, 2013

    • Sustainable Transpo Advocates Pleased by Foxx Pick (The Hill)
    • Foxx Could Be Friendly to Cincinnati Streetcar (Examiner)
    • No, Foxx Isn't a Transportation Expert; Neither Were Half of the Last 10 Secretaries (TID)
    • Obama: "LaHood May Be the Best Transportation Secretary the Nation’s Ever Had" (The Hill)
    • LaHood, In Turn, Heaps Praise on His Successor (Fast Lane) and His Boss (TPM)
    • Rendell and Oberstar, Passed Over For DOT Job, Have Sobering Words for Foxx (Politico, MinnPost)
    • First Year of Obama's "Strong Cities, Strong Communities" Program Yields Modest Successes (Next City)
    • Former GM Exec Suggests Raising Gas Taxes, People Freak Out (Forbes 1, 2)
    • You're Paying For Your Neighbor's Noxious Automobile Habit (Planetizen)
    • Case Studies in How Bicycling Boosts Business (Momentum)
    • In Increasingly Livable Washington, Gas Stations Disappear (WaPo)
    • The World's 20 Most Bike-Friendly Cities (Copenhagenize via Planetizen)
    • E-Bikes: "An Increasingly Viable Option for Urban Mobility"(CleanTechnica)
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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