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

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Jeff Wood is the creator of the Talking Headways podcast and editor of the newsletter The Overhead Wire.

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Talking Headways Podcast: Technical Assistance for Equitable TOD

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OPINION: Uber and Big Road Killed Illinois’s Transit Funding — And Lawmakers Let Them

In addition to editing Streetsblog Chicago, John writes the transportation column for the Chicago Reader weekly paper. A Chicagoan since 1989, he enjoys exploring the city on foot, bike, bus, and &#8216;L&#8217; train.

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How Illinois Could Help Beat the Transit Fiscal Cliff By Shifting Federal Funding

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Streetsblog Chicago Editor John Greenfield Seriously Injured in Bike Crash

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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Meet the New Congressional Caucus for Transportation

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Aggressive Driving

Media Watch: Local Papers Love Drivers

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Bike Sharing

Scooters Quenching Thirst in Chicago’s Transit Deserts

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Chicago

Advocates: Hey, Mayor Lori, Chicago Needs Congestion Pricing

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Highway Boondoggles: Chicago’s Congestion Magnet

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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Bicycle Infrastructure

States May Forfeit $1 Billion in Biking and Walking Funding

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