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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

Streetsblog California Editor Melanie Curry has been thinking about transportation, and how to improve conditions for bicyclists, since her early days commuting by bike to UCLA long ago. She was Managing Editor at the East Bay Express, and edited Access Magazine for the University of California Transportation Center. She also earned her Masters in City Planning from UC Berkeley.

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Melanie Curry

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Bicycling

Sacramento Adopts a Complete Streets Policy

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

Montgomery County MD

Best Practices: Five Vision Zero Tips for Suburbs

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Boston

Former Mass Gov. Mike Dukakis: Driving Is For Turkeys

Jeff Wood is the creator of the Talking Headways podcast and editor of the newsletter The Overhead Wire.

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Podcast

Talking Headways Podcast: The Sidewalk Barrons

Ned Lamont

Boondoggles

Connecticut’s Transportation Plan Stymies Its Future

In addition to editing Streetsblog Chicago, John writes the transportation column for the Chicago Reader weekly paper. A Chicagoan since 1989, he enjoys exploring the city on foot, bike, bus, and &#8216;L&#8217; train.

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John Greenfield

Market St

Car-Free Streets? Michigan Avenue, Please!

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Air Quality

Report: Drivers Inhale More Pollution than Cyclists

Don Kostelec

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Anchorage

The Small-City Vision Zero Challenge

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Footloose: Walkable Neighborhoods Attracting Investments While Burbs Die

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.

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