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9:10 AM EDT on September 8, 2009

    • Defying Trends, NYC Traffic Deaths, Pedestrian Fatalities Increased in 2008 (Post, Gothamist)
    • Bloomberg Won't Join MTA Lawsuit to Overturn TWU Contract (Post)
    • NYCEDC's Expanded Ferry Service to Move All of 1,700 NYers a Day By 2011 (AMNY)
    • Meet the Four Appointees Who Can Veto the MTA Capital Program (MTR)
    • Who Would Ride Red Hook Streetcars? (AMNY)
    • Driver vs. Driver: The Parking Blame Game (NYT)
    • Hard to Imagine a World Where People Don't Hold the Subway Doors (2nd Ave Sagas)
    • Drunk Driver Launches SUV Into Second Story of LI Home (News)
    • Matt Yglesias Questions the Legacy of Jane Jacobs
    • To Delight of Rob Anderson, SF Court Delays Hearing to Lift Bike Injunction (Streetsblog SF)

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