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8:57 AM EST on February 17, 2016

    • Atlanta Mayor: No Highway Funding Without More Support for MARTA (AJC)
    • Fort Lauderdale Streetcar to Cost $53 Million More Than Planned (Sun Sentinel)
    • Some States Changing Tax Forms to Conform With New Federal Transit Benefit, Some Aren't (Bloomberg)
    • Seattle City Council Weighs Buying Out Non-Profit Pronto Bike-Share (City Living Seattle)
    • Following Pushback, Hoboken Scraps Plan for Protected Bike Lane (Hudson Reporter)
    • City Metric: The Case Against Shared Space
    • Cleveland Transit Chief Appeals to State for More Funding (WKYC)
    • Wired: SF's Tech Bus Controversy Really About Housing
    • Sprawl Made Recent Round of Flooding in St. Louis Worse (Ars Technica)
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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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