Today’s Headlines
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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 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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