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9:12 AM EST on January 6, 2015

    • Five Pedestrian Deaths in South Jersey Over the Past Week, Only One Set of Charges (South Jerseyist)
    • Pittsburgh to Launch 50-Station Bike-share System This Spring (Post-Gazette)
    • Gas Is Dirt Cheap Because Americans Don't Pay the Real Costs of Driving (CityLab)
    • Cities Growing Faster Than Suburbs (Just Barely), Planetizen Reports
    • Urban Office Rents Up Almost 20%, Compared to Just 3 Percent in the Suburbs (MarketWatch)
    • No Charges for Episcopal Bishop Who Killed Baltimore Cyclist (Baltimore Brew)
    • A Republican Senator Tells Better Roads He Won't Rule Out a Gas Tax Hike
    • Low Gas Prices Could Mean Less Highway Money for Texas (KVIA  7)
    • A French Traffic Engineer Lays Out How to Apply "Level of Service" to Pedestrians (Urban kchoze)
Angie Schmitt

Angie Schmitt is the author of Right of Way: Race, Class and the Silent Epidemic of Pedestrian Deaths in America, and the former editor of Streetsblog USA.

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