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By Ben Fried

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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