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8:56 AM EDT on March 23, 2009

    • Texas Spending $181M in Stimulus Cash on 15-Mile Highway Outside Houston (NYT)
    • Most Transit Riders Support Bridge Tolls, But This Story Is All About the Ones Who Don't (NYT)
    • Nation's Transit Systems Still in Crisis (WSJ)
    • MTA Finance Board Votes Today on Doomsday Fare Hikes (Newsday)
    • Paterson Expects State Leg to Blow Deadline on MTA Plan (Newsday)
    • News Castigates Smith and Skelos for State Senate's Hold-Up of Transit Rescue
    • Drunk Driver Crashes Into Queens Laundromat, Injuring Elderly Man (News)
    • BID Wants to Give Flatbush Ave a Main Street Makeover (Bklyn Paper)
    • Working Families Party Asks for "Consultation" on City's Land Use Decisions (Post)
    • Status Report on Lower Manhattan Bike Lanes (Cyclosity)
    • Virginia Takes Aim at Cul-de-Sacs (WaPo via Beyond DC 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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