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By Ben Fried

8:54 AM EDT on October 14, 2010

Carl Paladino Has This MTA-Bashing Thing Down Cold (News, SAS)
Transit-Riding MTA Chief Promises No More Service Cuts (News)
No More Parking Placards: Inside Edition Exposes Rampant Fraud on the Dashboard
Cops Have Handed Out 378 Tickets to SBS-Blocking Motorists This Week (News)
Is the MTA Blame Game Rubbing Off on Select Bus Service? (SAS)
With B71 Van Service in the Red, Bklyn Paper Calls Out Albany for Shortchanging Transit
Gridlock Sam: Spend ARC Money on a Rail Connection for Staten Island (News)
Will America Ever Build Real HSR? (NYT)
Steve Levin Tackles Pressing Challenge of Our Time: Parking Regs During Film Shoots (Observer)
Amazing Time’s Up Vid Shows Safir-Era NYPD Helping Manhattan Critical Mass Go Smoothly (City Room)
Someone Stole Stephen Brown’s Bike, and MetroTech Bike Parking Policies Stink (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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