Today’s Headlines
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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)
More headlines at Streetsblog Capitol Hill
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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