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

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Aaron Short is a New York City-based writer with a long history of work with the New York Post, Hell Gate and others. He is also the co-author of &#8220;The Method to the Madness: Donald Trump&#8217;s Ascent as Told by Those Who Were Hired, Fired, Inspired — And Inaugurated.&#8221; (<a href="https://us.macmillan.com/books/9781250202819/themethodtothemadness">Macmillan</a>)

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Aaron Short

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Auto Makers

Five Ways Trump Is Wrong On California Emissions

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California

Traffic Study Comes Under Fire for Being Too ‘Pro-Car’

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Air Quality

Lessons of Los Angeles’s Transit Tax: Money Isn’t Everything

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Buses

Death Spiral: Riders Fleeing LA Buses

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TOD-Da! Oregon Blocks Single-Family Zoning

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Highway Boondoggle: Golden State’s Desert Destruction

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

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States Aren’t Even Trying to Reduce Traffic Deaths

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Award-Winning Bay Area Bridge Will Soon be a Failure

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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CARB chair Mary Nichols

Federal unSAFE Rollbacks Would Have Dire Consequences for Air Quality

LA freeway traffic

New Tool Makes it Easy to Estimate Added Travel from New Highway Lanes–in California