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8:59 AM EST on February 1, 2017

    • Elaine Chao Confirmed Easily for Transportation Secretary... (WaPo)
    • ...Still Evasive About the Administration's Plans (NYT)
    • Study: America Requires Way Too Much Parking Near Transit (NITC)
    • Why Elon Musk's Plan to Tunnel Under L.A. to Fix Congestion Is Terrible (City Journal)
    • What Vision Zero Cities Are Finding Does and Doesn't Work (Governing)
    • Rural Minnesota Lawmaker Wants to Require Permits for Bike Lane Users (TwinCities.com)
    • Georgia Police Officer Fired After Driving 97, Jumping Curb, Hitting Two Pedestrians (WSB Atlanta)
    • Parking Spaces Sell for as High as $88,000 in Boston (Curbed)
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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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