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8:49 AM EDT on July 29, 2013

    • An Eloquent Plea for Infrastructure Investment, But No Big Announcements, From Obama Last Week (TID)
    • The Two Faces of Obama on Infrastructure (JoC)
    • Republican T&I Leader Petri Wants Feds to Pay for Air Traffic Control at Private Air Show (The Hill)
    • House Republican Hanna: Highway Trust Fund Is an Archaic Way to Fund Transpo (Trucking Info)
    • Part 5 of Sightline's Parking? Lots! Series: The Scourge of Vacant Parking Spots
    • Yonah Freemark on CNN.com: Spain Crash Shouldn't Make Us Doubt the Safety of High-Speed Rail
    • 54 Solutions to Problems You May Not Have Even Known Washington, DC Had (City Paper)
    • Put Transit Underground, Pay for It By Upzoning (RPUS)
    • SF Weekly: Critical Mass Is a Shell of Its Former Self
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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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