Today’s Headlines
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By
Ben Fried
9:00 AM EST on November 30, 2009
- 29 License Suspensions Don’t Prevent SI Man From Killing Elderly Couple With His Car (NYT, News)
- Revolving Doors Keep Spinning: Driver With Suspended License Kills Bronx Bride-to-Be (Post, News)
- DOT Proposal For Union Street @ Grand Army Plaza: Turn Parking Lane Into Moving Lane (Post)
- LIC Residents Ask for One-Way Conversion on 49th Ave; Merchants Complain About Process (News)
- The Times Wants Federal Oversight for Transit Safety
- Most Megabus Customers Switch From Driving (WNYC)
- Straphangers Struggle to Figure Out How to Get Their Money’s Worth From MetroCards (News)
- Windshield Perspective Alert: The Times Gives Thanks for an Alt-Side Parking Holiday
- Manhattan Times Publisher Whines About His Own Parking Tickets
- This Will Be the Most Intensely Reported Incident of Careless Driving in a Long Time (CNN)
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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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