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8:59 AM EDT on May 13, 2015

    • What It's Like to Be Carless in Sprawling Phoenix (Talking Points Memo)
    • Seattle Wants Developers to Give Tenants Bus Passes, Not Parking Spots (CityLab)
    • Oregonian: Trucker Who Ran Red Light and Killed Three Children Shouldn't Be Charged
    • Politifact Evaluates Claim That Portland's Bike Network Cost Less Than Single Highway Mile
    • San Francisco Considering Housing Subsidies for Six-Figure Income Households (SF Business Times)
    • Brookings: Baltimore's Concentrated Poverty About Average for Large U.S. Cities
    • Capital Bikeshare Announces New Strategy to Solve Downtown's Morning Full Dock Problem
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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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