Today’s Headlines
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8:02 AM PDT on August 4, 2009
- Obama Presses Senate to Re-up Cash for Clunkers (News, NYT)
- Oil Based Economy Is Never Going to Recover (Infrastructurist)
- I-215 Widening Going to Cost Less Than Expected (Press-Enterprise)
- Rates Going Up at County-Owned Lots (Downtown News)
- “Allegedly” Drunk Westminster City Councilman Hit Car, Light Pole with Car (Times)
- Plan to Relocate and Restore Ventura Bike Path Approved (VC Star)
- Criminal Minds Star Sherman Moore Knocked Off His Bike in LA (Post Chronicle)
- Poof! A Street Becomes a Park in SF (SF Streetsblog)
- Metro’s “Cargo Cult” and the Fare Gates (Crazy Commuter)
More headlines at Streetsblog Capitol Hill
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