Today’s Headlines
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By
Ben Fried
9:02 AM EDT on July 28, 2009
- Study: Txting-While-Driving Is the Most Dangerous Distraction of Them All (NYT)
- NYCT to Cut 360 Positions in 2010, Including Maintenance and Cleaning Staff (NY1, Post, AMNY)
- City Council Considers 8 Bronx Sites for Commuter Ferry Service (News)
- Gotham Gazette Lays Out the Challenges That Await MTA Chair Nominee Jay Walder
- Subway Train Reliability Is Up This Year (News)
- Families, Investigators Try to Make Sense of Taconic Parkway Crash That Claimed 8 Lives (NYT, News)
- Dealers Packing Showrooms as Cash for Clunkers Begins (WSJ, News)
- Stars of Parking Policy Rock the House at World Parking Symposium (Planetizen)
- Speed Cams for Cars? Verboten. Blanketing a Train With Surveillance Cams? No Problem. (Post)
- Parked Cab Ignites Outside Plaza Hotel; No One Hurt (Post)
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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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