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8:53 AM EDT on September 16, 2014

    • Rail~Volution About to Get Underway in the Twin Cities (Strib)
    • Detroit Cheers TIGER Grant for Woodward Avenue Streetcar Line (Detroit News)
    • Scientist Praises Blumenauer's Call to Replace Gas Tax With VMT Fee (Roll Call)
    • Coalition Forms to Address New Jersey Transportation Funding Crisis (NJ.com)
    • Study of Housing + Transportation Costs Show Low-Income People Struggling (NLIHC)
    • What Happened at FutureBike After Pro-Walk Pro-Bike? Here's a Twitter Recap (Bike League)
    • Sidecar Quietly Positions Itself to Conquer the Transportation Market (GeekWire)
    • The Bikelash Means You're Winning (CityLab, Streetfilms)
    • How to Love Your Alley So It Loves You Back (Next City)
    • "MinuteEarth" -- the Perfect Elevator Speech on How Better Policies Can Save the Planet (ScienceAlert)
    • People Are Psyched to Get Hardcover NYC Subway Signage Guide from 1970 (Slate)
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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