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Maryland Invites Private Investment to the Purple Line (GGW) New Truck Safety Regulations Aren’t Enough to Placate Advocates (The Hill) Less Freight Moving By Truck, More By Rail Among NAFTA Partners (JOC x2) New Park Capping I-70 in St. Louis Re-Connects Arch With Downtown (Fast Lane) Philly Is Turning Away From the Automobile, But Developers Can’t … Continued

By Tanya Snyder

8:52 AM EDT on August 6, 2013

Maryland Invites Private Investment to the Purple Line (GGW)
New Truck Safety Regulations Aren’t Enough to Placate Advocates (The Hill)
Less Freight Moving By Truck, More By Rail Among NAFTA Partners (JOC x2)
New Park Capping I-70 in St. Louis Re-Connects Arch With Downtown (Fast Lane)
Philly Is Turning Away From the Automobile, But Developers Can’t See It (NextCity)
A New Common Sense Alternative to the Moribund Columbia River Crossing (Bike Portland)
In Toronto, Office Rents Near Transit Are 38 Percent Higher, Vacancy Rates Lower (Globe & Mail)
How a Visionary Mayor’s Smart Policies Brought About a Walking Boom in London (Economist)
DC’s Most Walkable Neighborhood Finally Excises Its Gas Station (GGW)
Cars as Weapons (Atlantic Cities)

Tanya Snyder

Tanya became Streetsblog's Capitol Hill editor in September 2010 after covering Congress for Pacifica Radios 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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