Today’s Headlines
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By
Ben Fried
9:15 AM EDT on April 2, 2010
- Urban Livability Seeping Into Cable News Coverage — Check Out This CNN Feature
- Transport for London IDs 140 Traffic Signals That Could Be Removed (Transport Xtra)
- Another Breed of Fake Placard: MTA Vests Get Parking Agents to Back Off (News)
- The Cross Bronx: It’s Loud, Polluting, Terrible for Kids, and Weird Human Interest Fodder for the Times
- Before the Interstates, America Had the World’s Fastest Trains (Progressive Fix via Infrastructurist)
- Urban Omnibus Talks to RPA About the Meaning of Urban Innovation
- The “THINK City” Electric Car — The Future of NYC’s Vehicle Fleet? (Brooklyn Paper)
- New Bowery Median Will Make a Dangerous Street Somewhat Less Dangerous (Downtown Express)
- Remembering an East Harlem Corner Before the Triborough (Harlem Bespoke)
- Does NYPD Have the Guts to Enforce Traffic in Bunny Costumes? (The 818 via @naparstek)
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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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