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8:55 AM EDT on July 9, 2013

    • LaHood Joins Axelrod's Political Think Tank (The Hill)
    • The World of the Self-Driving Car: Urban Parks or Suburban Sprawl? (NYT)
    • How the Feds Used to Do Urban Revitalization: Tear Down Housing, Build a Parking Lot (WaPo)
    • Meanwhile, in LA, They Tore Down a Parking Lot and Made a Park (Urban Times)
    • Fortune Editor Foretells the End of the Suburbs
    • Is There a Right to Walkability? In India? (Atlantic Cities, Human Transit)
    • Read the Fine Print: Bike Portland Finds $42 Million for Bike/Ped in New Legislation
    • New Development Plan for DC's Takoma Park Metro Is Way Better Than Virginia Stations (GGW, RPUS)
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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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