Today’s Headlines
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By
Ben Fried
9:02 AM EDT on August 13, 2010
- Judge Gives the Go Ahead for TLC Commuter Vans; TWU Will Get a Route (NYT, News)
- More on the TWU’s Bid to Run Vans on the B71 Corridor (Bklyn Paper)
- Is the Commuter Van Program Too Restrictive to Work? (Cap’n Transit)
- Gridlock Sam: 100 Years of Free East River Bridges Is Enough (News)
- State DOT and NYCEDC Bickering Over Willets Point Traffic Plan (NYT)
- Infra USA Talks Transpo Politics and Investment With TSTC’s Kate Slevin (via MTR)
- Eyes on the Street: Here Come the East Side SBS Lanes (Infrastructurist)
- Regis Doesn’t Want to See Pelham Parkway Become a “Forgiving Highway” (News, NYCivic)
- Pay Up, Red Light Runners — Or Else (Queens Chron)
- MTA Looking to Go Upscale With Underground Retail (AMNY)
- Brooklyn’s Most Prolific Car Collector Would Rather Bike Than Drive (Bklyn Paper)
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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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