Today’s Headlines
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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 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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