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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

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

EPA Recognizes Small Towns and Big Cities For Smart Growth Efforts

Climate Change

Governor Moonbeam versus eMeg: What’s at Stake for Transportation?

Noah joined Streetsblog as a New York City reporter at the start of 2010. When he was a kid, he collected subway paraphernalia in a Vignelli-map shoebox.
Before coming to Streetsblog, he blogged at TheCityFix DC and worked as a field organizer for the Obama campaign in Toledo, Ohio. Noah graduated from Yale University, where he wrote his senior thesis on the class politics of transportation reform in New York City. He lives in Morningside Heights.

Noah Kazis

Commuting

Report: Want to Ease Commuter Pain? Highways and Sprawl Won’t Help

John Burgess Everett

Smart Growth

Will GOP Senators Acknowledge the Fiscal Sense of Livable Communities?

Development

Dodd’s Livability Bill Earns Praise from Local Governments

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.

Smart Growth

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EPA Recognizes Small Towns and Big Cities For Smart Growth Efforts

Governor Moonbeam versus eMeg: What’s at Stake for Transportation?

Report: Want to Ease Commuter Pain? Highways and Sprawl Won’t Help

Will GOP Senators Acknowledge the Fiscal Sense of Livable Communities?

Dodd’s Livability Bill Earns Praise from Local Governments

Message From Copenhagen: Climate Plan Must Include Walkable Urbanism

Predicting the Future is Hard

Joel Kotkin on Smart Growth: The Streetsblog Re-mix

The Power of Transit-Oriented Development

A Brief Reply to Heritage’s Ronald Utt, PhD