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By Ben Fried

9:02 AM EST on February 2, 2010

NYT: Success of Car-Free Times Square Hinges on How Much Traffic Speeds Improved
Manhattan Costco a Retail Disappointment and Job Creation Failure (Crains)
How Much Do the Feds Spend on Transit? See For Yourself (NYT)
Doomsday Hitting American Transit Agencies For Real This Time (Transport Politic via SAS)
Looks Like Parking in Long Island City Is Too Cheap (News)
TLC Starts Enforcing Zero Tolerance Policy on Distracted Cabbies (Post)
FedEx Truck Smashes Into Brooklyn Heights Building, Injuring One (Bklyn Eagle)
Countdown Clocks Come to Two More Bronx Subway Stations (SAS)
The Painstaking Process of Building a New LIRR Terminal 14 Stories Underground (WNYC)
Melbourne’s Swanston Street Goes Car-Free (Herald Sun)

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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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