Today’s Headlines
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By
Ben Fried
8:54 AM EDT on May 11, 2010
- Drum Major Institute to Feds: Stop the War on Cities (Times Union)
- SI Rep Janelle Hyer-Spencer Masters MTA Blame Game (SAS)
- Turning City Bus Kills Queens Grandmother in Ozone Park (Post)
- Four Crossing Guards Hired to Help Peds Endangered By West Street Traffic (Tri Trib)
- Vacca Intros Bill Requiring TLC to Disclose Cabbie Summonses Each Month (Post)
- Got a Question About Robert Moses? Ask Author Roberta Gratz (City Room)
- Pedestrian-Hater Andrea Peyser: “Real NYers” Love Wal-Mart (Post)
- Soon India Will Have a Second Ultra-Cheap Car Hogging Space on Chaotic Streets (Wheels)
- Parking Reform Politics: How to Bribe Our Way Out of Parking Minimums (Yglesias)
- San Francisco Gets Its First Green Bike Lane (Streetsblog SF)
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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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