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

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Streetsblog USA

Ben Fried started as a Streetsblog reporter in 2008 and led the site as editor-in-chief from 2010 to 2018. He lives in Ditmas Park, Brooklyn, with his wife.

Ben Fried

Bus Rapid Transit

Chicago Loses NYC’s Congestion Pricing Money

Sarah Goodyear

Chicago

Using Twitter to Catch a Train

Before he began blogging about land use and transportation, Aaron Donovan wrote The New York Times Neediest Cases Fund&#8217;s annual fundraising appeal for three years and earned a master&#8217;s degree in urban planning from Columbia. Since then, he has worked for nonprofit organizations devoted to New York City economic development. He lives and works in the Financial District, and sees New York&#8217;s pre-automobile built form as an asset that makes New York unique in the United States, and as a strategic advantage that should be capitalized upon.

Aaron Donovan

Amtrak

Transit-Oriented America, Part 2: Three Cities

Transit-Oriented America, Part 1: Eight Thousand Miles

Jason Varone battles the streets everyday during a 9 mile commute on his bicycle from downtown Brooklyn to the Upper East Side. In addition to his efforts on Streetsblog, he is an artist making work related to the environment and technology. Examples of his work can be found at www.varonearts.org.

Jason Varone

Green Revolution Sweeping Through U.S. Cities

Air Quality

Pedaling Protest Takes on Car Show