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Today’s Headlines

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By Ben Fried

9:11 AM EDT on July 31, 2009

“Cash for Clunkers” Funds Dry Up — Now Car Dealers Want More Taxpayer $ (NYT, Post)
NJ Turnpike Authority to TSTC: How Dare You Try to Prevent Highway Widening (MTR)
House and Senate Pass Short-Term Patch for Transpo Funding (NYT, Streetsblog Cap Hill)
Bloomberg Agrees to Have City Vehicles Pay to Use MTA Crossings (News)
George Spitz: U.S. Should Build Rail Like We Mobilized for WWII (News)
Changes in Store for Gansevoort Pedestrian Spaces? (Villager)
Felix Salmon Mentally Braces for Battle to Get His Bike Inside His Workplace
Bronx Commuter Ferries Not a New Idea (R’dale Press)
Bike Culture in the UK (Guardian via Let’s Go Ride a Bike)
Tucson Gets Its First Sharrows, And They’re in the Middle of the Traffic Lane (TBL via Streetsblog.net)

More headlines at Streetsblog Capitol Hill

Ben Fried

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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