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8:55 AM EDT on April 18, 2017

    • Transportation for America on Trump Transit Cuts: "This Is Not a Big City Thing" (Next City)
    • Atlanta Transit Could Lose Out on $3 Billion If Trump Cuts New Starts and TIGER (AJC)
    • Self-Driving Buses: Cool, But Not Yet Cheap (or Tested) Enough to Be a Real Solution (Eno)
    • When It Comes to Access to Transit, Poorer Parts of the DC Region Are Left Behind (WaPo 1, 2)
    • 10 Ways to Know If You Have a Highway Expansion Boondoggle on Your Hands (Frontier Group)
    • Seattle's Helmet Law Might Not Have Been the Only Thing That Killed Its Bike-Share, But It Didn't Help (Guardian)
    • Drivers Kill Two on Sidewalks: No Charges in Florida (WFLA); DUI Homicide in Wisconsin (State Journal)
    • City DOTs Are Including Data Collected From Smartphones in Their Street Design Evaluations (GovTech)
    • Fort Lauderdale Kicks Off Parking Policy Study; Will It Get Serious About Pricing? (Sun Sentinel)
    • Protected Bike Lanes Come to Downtown Nashville (NewsChannel 5)
Stephen Miller
In spring 2017, Stephen wrote for Streetsblog USA, covering the livable streets movement and transportation policy developments around the nation. From August 2012 to October 2015, he was a reporter for Streetsblog NYC, covering livable streets and transportation issues in the city and the region. After joining Streetsblog, he covered the tail end of the Bloomberg administration and the launch of Citi Bike. Since then, he covered mayoral elections, the de Blasio administration's ongoing Vision Zero campaign, and New York City's ever-evolving street safety and livable streets movements.

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