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Streetsblog Network

Vance: Contact &amp; Donate

Connecting people to information about how to improve walking, biking, and transit

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Streetsblog Chicago

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Keating Law Offices

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

Steven Vance

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Bus Transit

Illinois Bill Would Require Companies to Offer Employees a Transit or Parking Benefit

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

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Why the Mortgage Interest Tax Deduction Has Got to Go

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American Roads Depend on Handouts From Bus Riders, Cyclists, Pedestrians

Will Handsfield

Congress Gives Itself More Free Parking Than Its Own Rules Allow

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

Federal Policy

The Parking Tax Benefit: A $7.3 Billion Subsidy for Traffic Congestion

Lawmakers Could Finally Equalize Benefits for Transit and Parking This Year

Talking Headways Podcast: Rondo Revisited

Talking Headways Podcast: California Über Alles

Uncle Sam Wants You to Drive: 5 Tax Breaks for Cars in the U.S. Tax Code

Tax Policy