- Americans Buying Smaller Cars (NYT)
- New Yorkers Scale Back Travel Plans, Support Gas Tax Cut (Post)
- Clinton Pushes Congress to Pick a Side on Gas Tax Holiday (Fox)
- NYC Fails Air Quality Tests (Crain's)
- Vito Fossella Arrested for Drunk Driving (NYT, WaPo)
- Tim Rutten Is L.A.'s Brodsky (LAT via Planetizen)
- MTA Chair Campaigns to Improve Agency's Image (News, NY1)
- Ads Coming to Exterior of Subway Cars (NY1)
- Classic 1972 Transit Map Gets an Update (City Room)
- Auditioning to Busk In the Subways (NYT, Post, News)
- A Step Toward Making Suburban America a Little Less Car Dependent (Yglesias)
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