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Today’s Headlines

8:56 AM EDT on May 21, 2015

    • House Approves Short-Term Transportation Funding Extension (NYT)
    • Texas Needs One More Senator's Vote to Debate a Texting While Driving Ban (KXAN)
    • Cities Where It's Faster to Walk and Bike Than Drive (Scientific American)
    • Amazon Now Using NYC Subway System for Prime Deliveries (Consumerist)
    • Walk Score Ranks 154 Cities on Bike-Friendliness (Redfin)
    • NFL Applying Pressure to St. Louis for Stadium Money (AP)
    • How Suburban Are America's Big Cities? (FiveThirtyEight)
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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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