Today’s Headlines
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8:07 AM PDT on July 21, 2009
- State Pols Strike Budget Deal, But Can They Sell It? (Times)
- Deja Vu? Leahy Reccomends Against Re-Upping with Ansaldo Breda (Times)
- Feds Covered Up Research on Dangers of Cellphone Use While Driving (NYT)
- Times Columnist Outraged with Enforcing Bans Against People Driving with an Expired License
- Biking In LA Writes a Companion Piece to Yesterday’s Streetsblog.net on Driver’s Attitudes Towards Cyclists
- Feds End Oversight of LAPD (LA_Now)
- What If Rail Travel Were Only as Safe as Driving? (Infrastructurist)
- Detroit Planners Study Car-Deer Crashes More Than Car-Ped Crashes (M-Bike via Streetsblog.net)
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