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By Ben Fried

9:02 AM EDT on July 28, 2009

Study: Txting-While-Driving Is the Most Dangerous Distraction of Them All (NYT)
NYCT to Cut 360 Positions in 2010, Including Maintenance and Cleaning Staff (NY1, Post, AMNY)
City Council Considers 8 Bronx Sites for Commuter Ferry Service (News)
Gotham Gazette Lays Out the Challenges That Await MTA Chair Nominee Jay Walder
Subway Train Reliability Is Up This Year (News)
Families, Investigators Try to Make Sense of Taconic Parkway Crash That Claimed 8 Lives (NYT, News)
Dealers Packing Showrooms as Cash for Clunkers Begins (WSJ, News)
Stars of Parking Policy Rock the House at World Parking Symposium (Planetizen)
Speed Cams for Cars? Verboten. Blanketing a Train With Surveillance Cams? No Problem. (Post)
Parked Cab Ignites Outside Plaza Hotel; No One Hurt (Post)

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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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