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9:02 AM EDT on August 4, 2009

    • Obama Presses Senate to Re-up Cash for Clunkers (News, NYT)
    • More on Bloomberg Campaign's Slate of Transit Recommendations (Post, News, NYT, AMNY, NY1)
    • NYC Cabbies Ignore Cellphone Ban, Which Is Virtually Unenforced (NYT)
    • Queens Man Struck By Two Cars and Killed on Grand Central Parkway (News)
    • New Coalition, NYSTEA, Calls for Greater Equity in Next Federal Transpo Bill (MTR)
    • Will Feds' Spending on HSR Mean Less Money for Local Transit Systems? (Trib)
    • Stim Funds Go to Waste Widening Highway 91 in the OC (Streetsblog LA)
    • You Can Test Out a Few Kinds of Bike-Share Stations at Summer Streets This Weekend (City Room)
    • This Post Story Makes It Sound Like There's Never a Good Reason to Tow a Car
    • States Ban School Bus Drivers from Cell Use While Driving. Why Not Everyone Else? (How We Drive)
    • How's This for Public Space Programming: Fight Night Under the Manhattan Bridge (Bklyn Eagle)

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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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