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

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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

Bicycle Infrastructure

Why It Makes Sense to Add Biking and Walking Routes Along Active Rail Lines

Transportation planner and advocate. Steven also created Chicago Cityscape, a site that tracks neighborhood developments across the city.

Steven Vance

Amtrak

Oil-Laden Freight Trains Delaying Amtrak, Commuter Trains Across U.S.

Katie Pearce

Rail

Decades in the Works, D.C.’s Silver Line Opens to Commuters

Americans Have Had It With the Hassles of Flying. Will They Take the Train?

Dallas

Talking Headways Podcast: Escobar’s Escalator

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

Lessons From Salt Lake City on Building Transit on Time and Under Budget

Federal Funding

Nine Days in September: Congress’s Chance to Break the Gridlock

Amtrak Foe Mica Meets His Match in John Robert Smith

Will the Next Rail Bill Make Trains Competitive With Highways and Aviation?

“The Twilight of the Appropriations Process”: House GOP Gets Its Knives Out