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<p>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.</p>


Angie Schmitt

Gas Tax

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

Study: Most Roads Don’t Pay for Themselves

Chris Christie

Chris Christie Keeps Trying to Balance NJ’s Books on Backs of Transit Riders

Federal Funding

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

Ben Ross

Building Cloverleafs Won’t Inspire Americans to Pay More for Transportation

<p>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.</p>


Tanya Snyder

Barack Obama

Is Obama Opposed to the Bipartisan Gas Tax Proposal or Just Noncommittal?

Senators Murphy (D) and Corker (R) Propose 12-Cent Gas Tax Increase

Barbara Boxer

Barbara Boxer’s Transportation Bill: Same As It Ever Was

Car Dependence

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

Earl Blumenauer

Concrete Proposals for Raising Gas Tax Finally on the Table