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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

Bike/Ped

Families of NYC Traffic Violence Victims Band Together for Safer Streets

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

Bicycling

Long Island Lawmaker to Injured Mom: No One Should Ride Bikes Here

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

California

Talking Headways Podcast: Vision Zero

Bike Sharing

Bixi Bankruptcy: What Does It Mean for American Bike-Share?

Upstate NY Mayor: People Who Bike in the Winter “Should Be Arrested”

New York

NYC’s Next Transportation Commissioner Is Polly Trottenberg

Bicycle Infrastructure

New Layer of Red Tape From FHWA Threatens to Delay NYC Bike Projects

NYC DOT Shares Its Five Principles for Designing Safer Streets

Liisa Ecola

Arts

“If/Then”: A Review of the Broadway-Bound Musical About City Planning

Cincinnati

Setbacks and Victories For Urbanism in Yesterday’s Mayoral Races