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8:55 AM EDT on July 12, 2017

    • House Spending Bill Includes $900 Million for Gateway Tunnel, Cuts for Everyone Else (Hill, NJ.com)
    • Rural Driving Falls As Urban Driving Grows (Slate), But Data Leaves More Questions Than Answers (Frontier)
    • Urban Congestion Is Better Than a Hollow City -- and It's a Problem That Can Be Fixed (Toronto Star)
    • INRIX: Average U.S. Motorist Wastes $345 Per Year in Time and Fuel While Searching for Parking (Reuters)
    • Boston Mayor Marty Walsh Under Fire for Lackluster Vision Zero Effort After Latest Pedestrian Death (NECN)
    • More Than Just a Bike Tax: Oregon's New Funding for Transit, Walking, Bicycling -- and Highways (BikePortland)
    • Dutch Traffic Signals Sense Seniors With Smartphones, Give Them More Time to Cross (Guardian)
    • There's No Shiny New Piece of Infrastructure, So How Do You Tour a Bus Network Redesign? (Human Transit)
    • Bike-Share Launches in Utica, NY (WBIX, Observer-Dispatch) and South Lake Tahoe, CA (South Tahoe Now)
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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