Today’s Headlines
Teen Driver Hits and Kills Queens Man, Passes Breathalyzer, Case Closed (News) DOT Dumps Company Charged With Modernizing NYC’s Traffic Signal System (Post) Car With NYPD Placard Blocks FDNY From Fire Hydrant as Blaze Injures Four Kids (Post) The Subway Ceiling Collapse Wake Up Call: We Need to Fund Transit Infrastructure (NYFI) Study: Cyclists Cause … Continued
By
Ben Fried
8:49 AM EDT on August 24, 2009
- Teen Driver Hits and Kills Queens Man, Passes Breathalyzer, Case Closed (News)
- DOT Dumps Company Charged With Modernizing NYC’s Traffic Signal System (Post)
- Car With NYPD Placard Blocks FDNY From Fire Hydrant as Blaze Injures Four Kids (Post)
- The Subway Ceiling Collapse Wake Up Call: We Need to Fund Transit Infrastructure (NYFI)
- Study: Cyclists Cause Fewer Than 10 Percent of Bike/Car Collisions (TreeHugger)
- Can a Constitutional Convention Fix Albany? (NYT)
- DOT Ramps Up Its Ped Countdown Timer Pilot Program (NY1)
- Brooklyn CB1 Presses City to Keep Its Promises on Taming Truck Traffic in North Brooklyn (MTR)
- NYC Reps Weiner and McMahon: Cash for Clunkers “a Great Program” (Bklyn Eagle)
- Confronting the Tragic Fixation on Easy Parking (Sustainable Savannah via Streetsblog.net)
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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