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White Plains Mayor Tom Roach | Photo: Women’s Enterprise Development Center

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White Plains, NY — The City of White Plains, which has the largest daytime population of any community in Westchester County, adopted a Complete Streets policy [...]

Albany Councilwoman Leah Golby introduced Complete Streets legislation, which was passed this week. | Photo: albanyny.gov

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Albany Councilwoman Leah Golby and the Albany Common Council — Golby introduced a Complete Streets ordinance that Albany’s Common Council passed in [...]

(L to R) New York City Transportation Commissioner Janette Sadik-Khan, Mayor Mike Bloomberg and Deputy Mayor Howard Wolfson at Monday’s Citi Bike launch. | Photo: Ben Rosenblatt

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Citi Bike — The long-awaited bike-share program was launched [...]

A bill sponsored by New York State Senator Daniel Squadron (right) closes a loophole in “Hayley and Diego’s Law.” Assemblymember Brian Kavanagh (left) will work to get the bill passed in the Assembly. | Photo: Noah Kazis

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Bridgeport Mayor Bill Finch | Photo: finchformayor.com

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Bridgeport Mayor Bill Finch – Mayor Finch joined advocates for a walking audit of Bridgeport’s East Main Street on Monday.

NJ Assemblymembers Scott Rudder and Celeste Riley — Rudder and [...]

Hop off a train, hop on a bike. This Citi Bike station at 8th Avenue and 31st Street, across from Penn Station (and steps from TSTC’s office), will have 67 bikes, making it one of the system’s largest stations. | Photo: Joseph Cutrufo

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Suffolk County Legislator Sarah Anker’s support for Sunday bus service will strengthen the bill. | Photo: Suffolk County Legislature

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New Jersey – The Garden State was ranked 7th on the League of American Bicyclists’ 2013 Bicycle Friendly [...]

MTA board member Allen Cappelli | Photo: New York Times

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Pro-transit New York State and City elected officials and MTA board members – New York State Senator Daniel Squadron, Assembly Members Nily Rozic and David Weprin, New [...]

New Jersey Assemblyman Troy Singleton. | Photo: United Brotherhood of Carpenters

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NJ Assemblyman Troy Singleton – Singleton wrote a Letter to the Editor calling for the “outdated” physical design of Route 130, New Jersey’s most dangerous road for pedestrians, to [...]

Amtrak set an all-time ridership record last month. | Photo: Transportation Nation

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Amtrak – Amtrak ridership is up during the first six months of fiscal year 2013, and this past March saw the highest ridership of any month in Amtrak history.

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