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9:01 AM EDT on October 19, 2016

    • Many House Transportation Committee Leaders Face Tough Reelection Campaigns (Politico)
    • Lone Star Rail Proposal Linking Austin and San Antonio Killed by Regional Planners (Austin Monitor)
    • NACTO's Global Street Design Guide is Live (NextCity)
    • Seattle Times Endorses $54 Billion Light Rail Measure
    • Austin Opens "Dynamically Tolled" Highway Lane (Community Impact)
    • Montgomery County, Maryland, Opens Second Protected Bike Lane (GGW)
    • Plan Would Rezone Two-Thirds of Portland Neighborhoods for More Density (Portland Tribune)
    • After $74 Million Widening, Seattle Street Just Two Seconds Faster for Drivers (Geekwire)
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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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