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MTA Service Cuts Would Strand Some NYers Far From Nearest Transit Route (News) News Reporter Walks the Extra Mile to Alternate Bus Stop Bike Racks on Buses: Convenient, Cheap, and Nowhere to Be Found in NYC (NY Examiner) The Govt Is in the Car-Selling Business. Now What? (Money) Desperate Times for Mall Owners (NYT) Speeding … Continued

By Ben Fried

9:15 AM EDT on April 6, 2009

MTA Service Cuts Would Strand Some NYers Far From Nearest Transit Route (News)
News Reporter Walks the Extra Mile to Alternate Bus Stop
Bike Racks on Buses: Convenient, Cheap, and Nowhere to Be Found in NYC (NY Examiner)
The Govt Is in the Car-Selling Business. Now What? (Money)
Desperate Times for Mall Owners (NYT)
Speeding Red Light Runner Crashes Into SUV, Sets Off Fireballs on Wyckoff Street (News)
MTA Decides Against Extending F Train With 11th Car (Bklyn Paper)
Off-Duty Cop Killed in Car Crash (Post, News)
Ex-NY Congressman Charged With DWI (NYT)
TXTing Records Lead to Six-Year Sentence for Killer Driver in CA (AP)
Grieve-Smith Likes the Ride on Albuquerque’s Rapid Buses (via Streetsblog.net)

Ben Fried

Ben Fried started as a Streetsblog reporter in 2008 and led the site as editor-in-chief from 2010 to 2018. He lives in Ditmas Park, Brooklyn, with his wife.

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