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Covering the movement to end car dependency and improve biking, walking and transit in America.

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Tanya became Streetsblog&#8217;s Capitol Hill editor in September 2010 after covering Congress for Pacifica Radios Washington bureau and for public radio stations around the country. She lives car-free in a transit-oriented and bike-friendly neighborhood of Washington, DC.

Tanya Snyder

Amtrak

Mica’s New Post Gives Him a Good Vantage Point For Sniping at Amtrak

What Would Meaningful Amtrak Reform Look Like?

Angie is a Cleveland-based writer with a background in planning and newspaper reporting. She has been writing about cities for Streetsblog for six years.

Angie Schmitt

As Highway and Air Travel Slump, Intercity Train Trips Increase

What Kind of Leadership Would Bill Shuster Bring to the Transpo Committee?

UPDATE: Reminder: Amtrak Subsidies Pale in Comparison to Highway Subsidies

House GOP Wants Amtrak Out of the Commuter Rail Business

Ben Goldman

Amtrak Chief Outlines “Aggressive” Plan for 2012 Investment

Romney Wins Iowa, Loses the Rail-Passenger Vote

Is the House Democrats’ New “Buy America” Jobs Bill Just a Political Ploy?

Noah joined Streetsblog as a New York City reporter at the start of 2010. When he was a kid, he collected subway paraphernalia in a Vignelli-map shoebox.
Before coming to Streetsblog, he blogged at TheCityFix DC and worked as a field organizer for the Obama campaign in Toledo, Ohio. Noah graduated from Yale University, where he wrote his senior thesis on the class politics of transportation reform in New York City. He lives in Morningside Heights.

Noah Kazis

Mica Drops Amtrak Privatization Plan In Call for Northeast Corridor HSR