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9:05 AM EDT on July 6, 2010

    • US Spends Billions on Oil Subsidies; Americans Paying Lowest Gas Taxes in History (NYT, USA Today)
    • Daily News Sees Private Vans as Transit System of the Future
    • Nice New York Mag Feature on "The Glaring Intelligence" of BRT
    • Deadly Drunk Driving Mars July 4 Weekend (Post)
    • With Criminal Charges Looming, Dems Looking to Dump Espada (Post 1, 2
    • Port Authority Uses Toll Increase to Fund PATH Station Improvements (1010WINS)
    • José Peralta Jockeys for Spot as Top MTA Basher (SAS
    • Assaults, Spitting Attacks on Transit Workers Continue (AMNY)
    • Talk About Fare-Beating: Livery Cars Won't Pay Sales Tax, So Albany Just Exempts Them (Post)
    • Region's Power Brokers Form Coalition to Decongest Airports (Crain's)
    • Auto-Dependency's Logical Extreme: Car For Blind Drivers Set for 2011 Release (Transpo Nation

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