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8:59 AM EST on January 11, 2017

    • U.S. DOT Issues Memo Highlighting Accomplishments During the Obama Era
    • Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo Releases Plan to Pedestrianize Parts of the Center City (Guardian)
    • NY/NJ Port Authority Fined $400 Million for Chris Christie's 2010 Canceling of ARC Tunnel (NY Post)
    • San Diego, Struggling to Shift Away From Driving, Falling Short of Climate Goals (KPBS)
    • Study: America's "Net Tax" on Gas Has Fallen by Half Since 2003 (Carbon Brief)
    • Legislation Allowing Vote on $5.5 Billion MARTA Expansion Introduced in Georgia (Curbed)
    • Trying to Make Nice With Cities, Uber Releases Traffic Data (WaPo)
    • Vox: Why Uber Lost $2.2 Billion in Nine Months
    • AP: Call Uber and Lyft "Ride Hailing" Apps, Not "Ride Sharing"
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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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