Today’s Headlines
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By
Ben Fried
8:00 AM EDT on March 15, 2010
- Yellow Bus Honcho Makes Dept of Ed an Offer They Can’t Refuse (Post)
- Cabbies and Customers in an Uproar Over Excess Charging Scandal (NYT, News, NY1)
- Livable Streets Mensch David Yassky Tapped to Head TLC (NY1)
- Hit-and-Run SUV Driver Kills Man in Brighton Beach (News, Post)
- TWU Petitions City — Not Albany — To Increase Funding for Student MetroCards (News)
- Congestion Pricing Foe Jeff Dinowitz to MTA: You Gotta Find Some Cash (R’dale Press)
- DMI’s John Petro Lays Out What Went Wrong With Ratner’s Arena Project (HuffPo)
- NYC Rolling Out Full-Scale Brooklyn Greenway Plan? (Post)
- Feds May Require Black Box to Record Crash Data in All Cars (NYT)
- How Will East Side Bus Lanes Co-exist With Second Ave Subway Construction? (SAS)
- Replacing Central Park Horses With Fake Vintage Cars: The Idea’s Not Dead Yet (City Room)
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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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