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9:01 AM EDT on May 27, 2008

    • Drivers Adjust, Perhaps Permanently, to $4/Gallon Gas (NYT)
    • Distance Americans Drive Makes Biggest Drop Since 1942 (Reuters)
    • Police Sergeants' Union Issues New Counterfeit Parking Placards (Post)
    • Another Sign of Rising Gas Prices: More Cops on Bikes (AP)
    • Washington Post Takes the Measure of Cycling in NYC
    • Past and Present MTA Honchos Get Free E-ZPasses for Life (News)
    • More New Yorkers Taking Subway; Bus Ridership Remains Flat (AMNY)
    • Drug-Addled Driver Strikes and Kills Woman in Brighton Beach (News, Post)
    • Vigilantes Remove Parking Signs From Remote Queens Neighborhood (NYT)
    • How Some Cities and Towns Are Responding to Higher Gas Prices (The Oil Drum: Local)
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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.

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