Today’s Headlines
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By
Ben Fried
8:59 AM EDT on May 10, 2010
- City Releases Data Showing How Many New Yorkers Bike, Walk, Drive, Take Transit to Work (NYT)
- News Isn’t Convinced 34th Street Transitway Will Pay Off
- Why Don’t NYC Kids Play Street Games Anymore? (Post)
- …It Probably Has Something to Do With This (Post)
- NYC Garbage Trucks Have Injured 294 People in the Last Three Years (Post)
- SI Ferry Crash Injures 37 — Mostly Nicks and Bruises — Prompts Federal Safety Probe (NY1, AMNY)
- Walder, Samuelsen Have a Confrontation in the Paper Over Work Rules (News)
- New BMW So Quiet, You Can’t Tell When You’ve Left It Idling (News, Post, AMNY)
- Cul-de-Sacs Totally Fail to Deliver Purported Benefits (Infrastructurist)
- Why Car Companies Feel OK Portraying Teen Drivers as Dangerous, But Not Seniors (538)
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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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