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8:57 AM EST on December 15, 2016

    • Some Cities And Counties Are Letting Transit Slide, Hoping Uber Will Fill the Gap (Slate)
    • CA Regulators Halt Uber Autonomous Vehicle Pilot in SF After Car Runs Red Light Into Crosswalk (electrek)
    • Auto Sales Slumping (WSJ)
    • In 35 Years, Boston Parking Meter Prices Have Gone Up 25 Percent, Transit Fares 275 Percent (Globe)
    • Detroit Debuts Plans for Downtown Protected Bikeway Network (Curbed)
    • Seattle Begins $21 Million Loan Program to Boost TOD By Light Rail Stations (NextCity)
    • U.S. DOT Releases a "Toolkit" for Interacting With State DOTs (CityLab)
    • Study: Self-Driving Cars Will Increase Highway Capacity a Lot (SSTI)
    • The Most Polluting States Went for Trump (Atlantic)
Angie Schmitt

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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