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8:53 AM EDT on May 11, 2016

    • Closure of Seattle's Alaskan Way Viaduct Didn't Cause Carmaggedon (Crosscut)
    • Anthony Foxx Warns He May Shut Down D.C. Metro to Prevent Another Fire (Reuters)
    • How Likely Is It That Boston's Green Line Extension Will Get Built? (Globe)
    • Rural Lawmakers Hold Up Bill That Would Open the Door to North Carolina Light Rail (WRAL)
    • Pennsylvania Gov Tom Wolf: "Playing Field Stacked Against Cities" (Inquirer)
    • Will Minnesota Chip in For Twin Cities' Third Light Rail Line? (Star Tribune)
    • Oakland Opens a Parking-Protected Bike Lane (CBS SF)
    • Columbus to Construct 25-Story "Millennial Tower" on a Parking Lot (Dispatch)
    • Sprawl and Waukesha, Wisconsin's Big Great Lakes Water Grab (The Atlantic)
    • Are Families Choosing Unwalkable Suburbs, or Settling for Them? (City Lab)
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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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