Today's Headlines

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By Ben Fried

8:58 AM EDT on August 3, 2010

Gulf Oil Spill the Worst Ever (NYT); Post: So What?
Two Kids on Bikes Have Been Killed in Separate Collisions Since Last Week (Post)
The Proof Is in the (Lack of) Speeding: PPW Bike Lane Has Tamed Traffic (Bklyn Paper)
DOT Has Officially Converted Most Defunct Bus Stops to Parking (Post)
Gelinas: Walder Should Be Asking Labor to Make Bigger Sacrifices (Post)
MTA Predicts 16 Million Fewer Transit Trips in the Year After Fare Hike (News)
Will 1.1 Billion People Like This? India Crowdsources Traffic Enforcement to Facebook Vigilantes (NYT)
Stringer, Rosenthal Call on DOT to Tackle Safety Nightmare at B’way and Amsterdam (City Room, NY1)
Hundreds of Cabbies and Livery Drivers Are Going to TLC Finishing School (AMNY)
How Hollywood Humiliates the Car-Free (Slate)

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Ben Fried

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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