Today’s Headlines
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By
Ben Fried
9:02 AM EST on February 3, 2010
- Bloomberg: Success of Car-Free Broadway Not Just About Effects on Traffic (City Room, Post)
- Drum Major Institute: Congestion Pricing the Only Way to Stave Off Transit Catastrophe (HuffPo)
- Pentagon Ranks Global Warming a Destabilizing Force (Guardian)
- NYCT Rolls Out New Three-Door Bus for SBS Corridors (SAS)
- Report: MTA Letting Contractors Off the Hook for Shoddy Work (NYT, News, Post, AMNY)
- New South Ferry Terminal Already Springing Leaks (AMNY)
- Daily News Makes Light of Traffic Deaths in Weird, Half-Hearted Enforcement Cam Endorsement
- Vowing to Reduce Traffic Collisions, SFPD Chief Initiates Review of Bike-Ped Policies (Streetsblog SF)
- NYC Night Scenes, Seen From the Saddle (City Room)
- Sure, Slime Molds Can Design Transit Networks, But Can They Fund Them? (Freakonomics)
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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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