Today’s Headlines
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By
Ben Fried
8:30 AM EDT on May 26, 2010
- Jim Dwyer Pens the Year’s Best Column on the MTA (NYT)
- More About the New Transit Operating Aid Bill From MTR and 2nd Ave Sagas
- Cuomo “Action Plan” Silent on Transit Funding (Transpo Nation)
- Komanoff and the BTA Get Their Due in Wired Mag
- City Room Covers the New Addition to the Hudson River Greenway
- No More Deepwater Drilling? Not While We’re Hooked on Oil (Good)
- Are “Shrinking Cities” Really Growing Smaller, or Are They Sprawling Out? (Switchboard)
- Car Blog Jalopnik: Indian Cities Won’t Be Able to Function With Millions of New Cars
- News Milks Spit-Gate for Editorial Content
- Parking Ticket Cast as Villain Opposite Adorable Newborn (News)
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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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