Today’s Headlines
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By
Ben Fried
9:10 AM EDT on September 8, 2009
- Defying Trends, NYC Traffic Deaths, Pedestrian Fatalities Increased in 2008 (Post, Gothamist)
- Bloomberg Won’t Join MTA Lawsuit to Overturn TWU Contract (Post)
- NYCEDC’s Expanded Ferry Service to Move All of 1,700 NYers a Day By 2011 (AMNY)
- Meet the Four Appointees Who Can Veto the MTA Capital Program (MTR)
- Who Would Ride Red Hook Streetcars? (AMNY)
- Driver vs. Driver: The Parking Blame Game (NYT)
- Hard to Imagine a World Where People Don’t Hold the Subway Doors (2nd Ave Sagas)
- Drunk Driver Launches SUV Into Second Story of LI Home (News)
- Matt Yglesias Questions the Legacy of Jane Jacobs
- To Delight of Rob Anderson, SF Court Delays Hearing to Lift Bike Injunction (Streetsblog SF)
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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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