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By Ben Fried

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

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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