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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

Bicycle Infrastructure

Bike Signals Get the Green Light From Engineering Establishment

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.

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

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.

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Bipartisan Policy Center

U.S. DOT Still Has Time to Get MAP-21 Performance Measures Right

Federal Funding

Shutdown: Congress Prepares to Furlough One-Third of U.S. DOT Staff

AASHTO

FHWA to Transportation Engineers: Use the NACTO Bikeway Design Guide

Congress for the New Urbanism

Petitioning U.S. DOT to Recognize That City Streets Should Prioritize Walking

Bicycle Safety

Lawmakers Fret About Impact of Budget Cuts on Transit

U.S. DOT to Challenge AASHTO Supremacy on Bike/Ped Safety Standards

NSC: 36,200 Americans Killed in Traffic in 2012, First Increase in 7 Years

Bicycling

Finally Getting Serious About Measuring How Much People Walk and Bike