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Teen Driver Charged With Multiple Counts for Killing Man at Dyker Heights Bus Stop (News) The Times and the Post Have More on Yesterday’s Pedicab Crash in Brooklyn MTA’s Automated Train Tech Isn’t Ready for Prime Time Yet (AMNY, 2nd Ave Sagas) NY Mag: Enjoy the New Times Square While It’s Still Weird Here’s the … Continued

By Ben Fried

9:03 AM EDT on June 11, 2009

Teen Driver Charged With Multiple Counts for Killing Man at Dyker Heights Bus Stop (News)
The Times and the Post Have More on Yesterday’s Pedicab Crash in Brooklyn
MTA’s Automated Train Tech Isn’t Ready for Prime Time Yet (AMNY, 2nd Ave Sagas)
NY Mag: Enjoy the New Times Square While It’s Still Weird
Here’s the Backstory on All Those ‘Controversial’ Broadway Lounge Chairs (NYT)
Bklyn Paper Presses Mike McMahon to Justify the House’s Ridiculous Cash for Clunkers Bill
NYC Cabbies Voted World’s Worst Taxi Drivers (Wheels)
Tom Vanderbilt Has More Safety in Numbers Stats (How We Drive)
Oregon Ban on Cell Phone Use While Driving Stuck in Committee (BikePortland via Streetsblog.net)
Horn Honking Not Constitutionally Protected Speech, Rules State Appeals Court (Seattle Times)

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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