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Texas A&M Releases Urban Mobility Report, Which Promptly Gets Ripped to Shreds (Planetizen, GGW) Actually, AP, Americans Wasted Way More Than 2 1/2 Days in the Car Last Year Transpo Bill Weakens Truck Safety Measures (Cap Times) Phoenix Approves Light Rail Tax Package (T4America, AZ Central, New Times) Uncertainty About Boston’s Long-Planned Green Line Freaks Out Homeowners … Continued

By Tanya Snyder

8:49 AM EDT on August 27, 2015

Texas A&M Releases Urban Mobility Report, Which Promptly Gets Ripped to Shreds (Planetizen, GGW)
Actually, AP, Americans Wasted Way More Than 2 1/2 Days in the Car Last Year
Transpo Bill Weakens Truck Safety Measures (Cap Times)
Phoenix Approves Light Rail Tax Package (T4America, AZ Central, New Times)
Uncertainty About Boston’s Long-Planned Green Line Freaks Out Homeowners (Curbed)
DC Streetcar (Whenever It Opens) Will Accept Mobile Payment (BizJournal)
Arlington’s Shiny New Transportation Desire: Gondolas (DCist)
Pinellas County Cuts Routes to Pay For New Buses (Tribune)
If Transit Is Your Friend, Is Uber Your Enemy? (Gizmodo)

Tanya Snyder

Tanya became Streetsblog's Capitol Hill editor in September 2010 after covering Congress for Pacifica Radios 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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