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Today’s Headlines

8:57 AM EDT on May 2, 2008

    • 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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