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By Ben Fried

8:27 AM EST on January 19, 2010

Kavanagh on East Side Bus Routes: Is Painting a Lane the Best We Can Do? (AMNY)
More About Jay Walder’s Plan to ‘Make Every Dollar Count’ at the MTA (NY1, News, 2nd Ave Sagas)
MTA Set to Sign Off on Two Years of TWU Raises, But Not Three (News)
Will Nets Arena Desecrate the Sidewalk Just Like LIRR Terminal? ESDC Won’t Say (Bklyn Paper)
Queens CB 2 Approves of Curbing the Construction of Curb Cuts (Queens Chron)
Newsflash: Flushing Motorists Obsessed With Parking (News)
State Agencies Still Sending Traffic Alerts via Text (News)
NYT‘s Excellent ‘Driven to Distraction’ Series Files Obligatory Entry on Texting Pedestrians
NYPD Traffic Planning, Circa 1924: Pave the East River! (Gothamist)
Joe Scarborough to Harold Ford: Real NYers Ride the Subway (MSNBC via TPM)

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Ben Fried

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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