Today’s Headlines
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By
Ben Fried
9:07 AM EDT on July 29, 2009
- With Bike Access Bill a Done Deal, Yassky and Liu Bury the Hatchet, at Least in Public (News, NYFI)
- Post Gets the Basics of Bike Access Bill Wrong
- A Fuel Efficient Fleet of American Cars: Not Happening Without Higher Gas Prices (NYT)
- Speeding FedEx Driver Kills Pedestrian in Long Beach (Post)
- Being the “Anti-Elitist” Candidate for Mayor Means Driving Your Own Car (NYT)
- Lots of Stories Today About MTA’s Progress Toward Total Train Surveillance (NYT, NY1, Post)
- Online Bike Trip Planning: It’s Kind of Like the Manhattan Project (Bike Portland via Streetsblog.net)
- Now You Can Check Subway Sked Tweets Before You Go Underground (Post)
- TSTC and LSE Team Up for a Lesson on Ped Safety and Community Organizing in Newark (MTR)
- Sweet Before-and-After Pics of Shared Space Streets in Ashford, UK (How We Drive)
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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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