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Nine Dead in DC Metro Crash (NYT, News) MTA Gives Ratner a Bunch of Extra Loot in Atlantic Yards Deal (News, Post, City Room) Judge: NYC Can’t Promote Hybrid Taxis; That’s the Feds’ Job (News) State DOT Wants to Add Shoulders, Faster Ramps to Reconstructed BQE (Bklyn Paper, NY1) TSTC Has Some Advice for Acting … Continued

By Ben Fried

8:50 AM EDT on June 23, 2009

Nine Dead in DC Metro Crash (NYT, News)
MTA Gives Ratner a Bunch of Extra Loot in Atlantic Yards Deal (News, Post, City Room)
Judge: NYC Can’t Promote Hybrid Taxis; That’s the Feds’ Job (News)
State DOT Wants to Add Shoulders, Faster Ramps to Reconstructed BQE (Bklyn Paper, NY1)
TSTC Has Some Advice for Acting NYSDOT Commish Stanley Gee (MTR)
Scenes From DOT’s Last BRT Workshop (City Room)
WNYC Checks In on Progress of 7 Line Extension
Chuck Schumer: To Get to Know New York, You’ve Got to Ride a Bike (HuffPo)
Heartbreaking Pictures of Long Gone American Train Stations (Infrastructurist)
Savannah Cops: Ped Injury Justifies Jaywalking Crackdown (Sustain Savannah 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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