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8:53 AM EDT on April 24, 2015

    • U.S. Justice Department to Investigate Tampa's Unequal Bike Ticketing (Gulf Live)
    • Thrillist Lists "World's Worst Designed Cities"
    • Some Establishment Conservatives Want to Accept Climate Science (Grist)
    • More Families Going Car-free (NYT)
    • TxDOT Planning Elevated Freeway Teardown in Houston (Houston Public Media)
    • Philadelphia Launches Nation's Fifth Largest Bike-Share System (NBC Philadelphia)
    • Across the U.S., 90 Transportation Funding Bills Awaiting Passage (Equipment World)
    • Baton Rouge Taking Steps Toward a Streetcar (The Advocate)
    • Are Cities for People or Cars? (The American Conservative)
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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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