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8:49 AM EDT on August 24, 2009

    • Teen Driver Hits and Kills Queens Man, Passes Breathalyzer, Case Closed (News)
    • DOT Dumps Company Charged With Modernizing NYC's Traffic Signal System (Post)
    • Car With NYPD Placard Blocks FDNY From Fire Hydrant as Blaze Injures Four Kids (Post)
    • The Subway Ceiling Collapse Wake Up Call: We Need to Fund Transit Infrastructure (NYFI)
    • Study: Cyclists Cause Fewer Than 10 Percent of Bike/Car Collisions (TreeHugger)
    • Can a Constitutional Convention Fix Albany? (NYT)
    • DOT Ramps Up Its Ped Countdown Timer Pilot Program (NY1)
    • Brooklyn CB1 Presses City to Keep Its Promises on Taming Truck Traffic in North Brooklyn (MTR)
    • NYC Reps Weiner and McMahon: Cash for Clunkers "a Great Program" (Bklyn Eagle)
    • Confronting the Tragic Fixation on Easy Parking (Sustainable Savannah 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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