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8:59 AM EDT on March 15, 2017

    • Work Going on Behind the Scenes on Trump's $1 Trillion Infrastructure Plan (The Hill)
    • Trump Team Wants to Use Arbitration to Speed Infrastructure Projects (Reuters)
    • If the EPA Eases Emission Standards, California's Prepared for a Fight (SF Chronicle)
    • Seattle Will Replace Elevated Highway With Highway Tunnel + 8-Lane Surface Speedway (Seattle Times)
    • Detroit's M1 Rail to Launch in May -- Here Are the Details (NextCity)
    • Replacing Interchanges With Roundabouts Will Open Up 34 Acres in Newport, RI (Providence Journal)
    • Montana Senate Blocks Three-Foot Passing Bill (Montana Public Radio)
    • How a California Startup Makes Money Tearing Out Roads -- in 2025 (The Nearly Now)
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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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