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

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Damien Newton

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California Has Officially Ditched Car-Centric ‘Level of Service’

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

Talking Headways Podcast: Good Riddance, “Level of Service”

Bus Rapid Transit

Talking Headways Podcast: California Über Alles

Streetsblog California Editor Melanie Curry has been thinking about transportation, and how to improve conditions for bicyclists, since her early days commuting by bike to UCLA long ago. She was Managing Editor at the East Bay Express, and edited Access Magazine for the University of California Transportation Center. She also earned her Masters in City Planning from UC Berkeley.

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Melanie Curry

Bicycle Infrastructure

Caltrans Endorses the NACTO Urban Street Design Guide

Payton Chung is Editor at Large of Streetsblog USA. He first addressed a city council about smart growth in 1996, accidentally authored Chicago&#8217;s inclusionary housing law, and sees the promises and perils of planning every day as a resident of &#8220;beautiful as well as sanitary&#8221; Washington, D.C.

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Parking Craters Aren’t Just Ugly, They’re a Cancer on Your City’s Downtown

Tom Fairchild

Apple Transportation Program Stuck in the Past

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.

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California Has Officially Ditched Car-Centric ‘Level of Service’

Talking Headways Podcast: Good Riddance, “Level of Service”

Talking Headways Podcast: California Über Alles

Caltrans Endorses the NACTO Urban Street Design Guide

Parking Craters Aren’t Just Ugly, They’re a Cancer on Your City’s Downtown

Apple Transportation Program Stuck in the Past

Parking Madness Elite Eight: El Cerrito vs. Chicago

Talking Headways Podcast: From the Free Market to the Flea Market

Dramatic Shift Away From Driving Continues in California

The End for LOS in California? State Wants Input on a New Planning Metric