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By
Ben Fried
8:45 AM EDT on October 12, 2010
- Inside the 36 Hours That Might Save ARC (Star-Ledger)
- Firefighter Under Suspicion But Not Arrest for Fatal Hit-and-Run (News, Post, NYT)
- Trucker Who Critically Injured Brooklyn Cyclist Never Should Have Gotten Behind the Wheel (Gothamist)
- Walder Bemoans MTA-TWU Impasse (NY1)
- Why Manhattan CB 12 Shouldn’t Have Veto Power Over Better Transit on 181st Street (Cap’n Transit)
- City Room Covers Stringer’s Bike Lane Report and Torrent of Comments Follows
- Household Transpo Spending Dropped a Lot in 2009 (NYT via Transpo Nation)
- New Yorkers Know There’s No Such Thing as Safely Driving-While-Phoning… (AMNY)
- …Does Kai Ryssdal? (Marketplace)
- What the Heck Is Going on With the Weather in Brooklyn? (News, City Room)
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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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