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Today’s Headlines

9:05 AM EST on January 6, 2009

    • Auto Industry Faces Across-the-Board Dive in New Car Sales (NYT)
    • Albany Has Until March 25 to Address MTA Budget Gap (NY1)
    • Op-Ed: Drivers Should Pay More Than What Ravitch Plan Asks For (Chelsea Now)
    • UK Debates Safety Merits of Automatically Limiting Vehicle Speeds (BBC)
    • More on the TLC's Safety-Monitoring Camera Program (City Room)
    • CB1 Chair Won't Explain Why Transpo Committee's Teresa Toro Got Sacked (Bklyn Paper)
    • MTR Reviews New York's Year in Transportation
    • Cap'n Transit Looks at Potential Midtown Tunnel Bus Routes
    • Remember How the MTA Spent Its Surplus? (2nd Ave Sagas)
    • Columbus Aims to Become America's Next Great Biking City (Car Less Ohio via Streetsblog.net)
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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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