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8:53 AM EDT on September 9, 2015

    • Congress Returns From Summer Recess to a Long To-Do List, Including Transpo (ABC)
    • U.S. DOT Offers Congress a Way to Kick the Can on Transpo Funding (The Hill)
    • "Move Seattle" Is Great, But There's Another Transit Funding Tool Seattle Is Ignoring (Stranger)
    • Lee City Council Votes to Become First Massachusetts City With Its Own Local Gas Tax (NEPR)
    • How the Charterization of New Orleans Schools Has Hurt Transit (CityLab)
    • Study: Addressing Crime Encourages People to Bike, Walk, and Use Transit More -- And Quickly (Mineta)
    • Lessons Learned From an Attempt at Transit in a Small Town (Next City)
    • Report Blames Sprawl for Traffic Deaths (Broken Sidewalk)
    • 11 Innovations Worth Stealing From Colombia (And 5 From Mexico) (BikePortland, HuffPo)
    • An Equitable Climate Finance System Would Stick You With a $12,000 Bill (Grist)
Tanya Snyder
Tanya became Streetsblog's Capitol Hill editor in September 2010 after covering Congress for Pacifica Radio’s 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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