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

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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

Car Dependence

What Happens When You #ReplaceBikeWithCar

Atlanta

Atlanta’s Snowjam Disaster: How Much Was Sprawl to Blame?

What Will Our Future Be Like If We Don’t Change How We Get Around?

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

Bicycling

Mr. Money Mustache on Retiring at 30 By Riding a Bike

Todd Litman

Affordability as a Transportation Planning Objective

Anne Lutz Fernandez is a former corporate executive with experience in management and marketing of consumer brands such as Weight Watchers frozen foods and Bufferin pain relievers. She also spent a decade as an investment banker in New York and London where her work included marketing the firm&#8217;s services to multinational corporations and advising clients on strategic mergers and acquisitions. She left her position as Director at Credit Suisse to become a writer and teacher. She currently teaches English and lives in Connecticut with her husband, who is also a teacher. She co-authored her first book, Carjacked: The Culture of the Automobile and its Effect on our Lives, with her sister, anthropologist Catherine Lutz.

Car Dependence

Topics

What Happens When You #ReplaceBikeWithCar

Atlanta’s Snowjam Disaster: How Much Was Sprawl to Blame?

What Will Our Future Be Like If We Don’t Change How We Get Around?

Mr. Money Mustache on Retiring at 30 By Riding a Bike

Affordability as a Transportation Planning Objective

High Anxiety: Good Parents and Bad Parents on the Road

U.S. PIRG Report: Young Americans Dump Cars for Bikes, Buses

Bad Transit Condemns Much of Ohio’s Growing Urban Poor to Dependency

As the Economy Grows and Adds Jobs, Americans Keep Driving Less

Mounting Transportation and Housing Costs Devour Household Budgets