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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

Mitch McConnell

Car Dependence

Here’s Why McConnell Is Wrong On The Gas Tax

Highway trust fund revisions

Affordable Housing

Advocacy Group: Stop Spending On New Roads

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

Federal Funding

5-Year, $300 Billion “FAST Act” Will Extend Transpo Policy Status Quo to 2020

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

Highway trust fund

Senate Transpo Bill Sinks Under the Weight of Its Own Chicanery

Senate Preserves TIGER Program While House Punts on Long-Term Bill

A Quick Guide to the State of Transpo Policy on Capitol Hill

Transpo Bill Update: Congress Tees Up Two More Months of the Same

Tony Dutzik

Gas Tax

Is Raising the Gas Tax Really the Answer?

Barbara Boxer

Boxer and Inhofe Say Transportation Bill Almost Ready, Funding Still TBD

Ranking the Sad Parade of Federal Transpo Funding Ideas From Worst to Best