Today’s Headlines
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By
Ben Fried
9:10 AM EDT on August 10, 2009
- Pentagon to Back Transpo Reform? Military Says Climate Change Threatens National Security (NYT)
- Arbitrators Expected to Give MTA Workers 4 Percent Annual Raise (News)
- Driver Kills Elderly Man Crossing Street in Bensonhurst; NYPD: ‘No Criminality Suspected’ (News)
- The Great Cycling PR Campaign of 2009 Continues in the Daily News
- A Brief History of American Street Design (Planetizen)
- NY1 Shows a Few Scenes From the First ‘Summer Streets’ of 2009
- Market-Oriented Parking Policy Can Make Cities More Livable (Austin Contrarian via Streetsblog.net)
- The Post Keeps Demonizing NYPD Tow Crews as Weprin Unveils a Bill to Extend Impound Lot Hours
- How They Do Parking Placard Fraud in the Hamptons (Post)
- Another Reason to Submit Your Bike Etiquette PSA to TA: BikeSnob Will Be Judging, Snobbily
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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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