Community Board 9 Endorses Car-Free Park Trial, Reverses Committee Vote

Manhattan Community Board 9 became the latest to endorse a car-free Central Park trial last night. By a vote of 32-9 with five abstentions, the board overwhelmingly overturned the 2-1 vote of its transportation committee, which had been the only committee in the borough not to endorse the plan thus far.
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City?s Response to PPW Lawsuit Matter-of-Factly Dismantles NBBL Claims

The lawsuit arguing for the removal of the Prospect Park West bike lane is back in court next Wednesday, and Kate Hinds at Transportation Nation has the legal brief in which the New York City Department of Transportation and the city Law Department respond to the charges leveled against DOT.
In new court papers, available above, [...]

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Gibbs teams told to change unauthorized oil pans

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Waltrip hopes for Le Mans return

Two-time Daytona 500 winner Michael Waltrip says he would 'love' to return to the Le Mans 24 Hours after an eventful first outing at La Sarthe in a AF Corse-run Ferrari 458. The 48-year-old American, who shared a GTE AM car with Portuguese driver Rui Aguas and rookie Robert Kauffman, was forced to retire from the race after 178 laps with a differential failure but described the experience as being like nothing he had seen before in racing. "It's just amazing," he told AUTOSPORT.

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Winterbottom denies Whincup pole

Ford Performance Racing's Mark Winterbottom beat championship leader Jamie Whincup (Triple Eight Holden) to pole position for the first of this weekend's races at Darwin's Hidden Valley Raceway. The top 10 shoot-out qualifying system is back in use this weekend, and after going quickest in the opening part of qualifying, Winterbottom was the last man out in the pole session - going on to edge out Whincup by just 0.01 seconds. Stone Brothers' Shane van Gisbergen registered his best qualifying result of 2011 so far in third, sharing row two with Dick Johnson Ford driver Steven Johnson.

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Renault to stay in black and gold

Group Lotus plans for the Renault team to remain in its distinctive black-and-gold colour scheme in 2012, following the positive exposure that it has received this year. Lotus' decision to become title sponsor of Renault resulted in a total rebranding of the car - with the outfit opting for the paint scheme that was made famous by Lotus Formula 1 cars throughout the late 1970s and early 1980s

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Check Out This Leaked Photo of the 2013 Mercedes-Benz B-Class!

The upcoming generation of Mercedes-Benz compact cars is turning out to be the worst-kept secret in the automotive world. A few weeks ago, public patent filings outed the next-gen A-class; now, thanks to an Italian car blog, we’ve got a completely undisguised photo of the next Mercedes-Benz B-class. Despite different names, the A and B [...]

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