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Today’s Headlines

State Pols Dole Out Spoils From Transit Slush Fund to Suburban Rail Projects (News) NYT Mag Does an Infrastructure Issue: Here’s the Best Part; Here’s the Silliest Two Short Q&As With Ray LaHood (NYT, US News via Yglesias) Queens Toddler Struck By Car on Neighborhood Street; News Blames Her Family Hell’s Kitchen Residents March for … Continued

By Ben Fried

8:55 AM EDT on June 15, 2009

State Pols Dole Out Spoils From Transit Slush Fund to Suburban Rail Projects (News)
NYT Mag Does an Infrastructure Issue: Here’s the Best Part; Here’s the Silliest
Two Short Q&As With Ray LaHood (NYT, US News via Yglesias)
Queens Toddler Struck By Car on Neighborhood Street; News Blames Her Family
Hell’s Kitchen Residents March for Pedestrian Safety on Dangerous Ninth Avenue (News)
Pedicab Regs Get Fast Tracked; Rules Don’t Cap Number of Licenses (NYT, News, Post)
Suffolk County Votes to Install Its First Red Light Cams (Newsday)
Brooklyn Paper Picks Up the Fifth Ave Bike Lane Story
Much Ink Spilled About Matthew Modine’s Helmet Policy (Copenhagenize, NYMag, TreeHugger)
Pedestrianist Has Cool Footage From San Francisco’s Car-Free Sunday Streets (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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