Today’s Headlines
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By
Ben Fried
9:02 AM EST on November 9, 2010
- If the State Senate Is Deadlocked 31-31, Could Cuomo Decide Which Party Gets Control? (WSJ)
- Columbus Ave Merchants on New Bike Lane: Loss of Parking Causing Delivery Delays (DNAInfo)
- Wal-Mart Is Back Plotting Its Invasion of NYC (Crain’s)
- Bloomberg Calls Traffic Summons Quotas an Aberration, Says Kelly Will Look Into It (News)
- Marketplace Takes a Look at Congestion Pricing for Highways
- Bloomberg Talks Up Congestion Pricing, BRT in Climate Address to Big-Time Mayors (Transpo Nation)
- Should the MTA Board Be Elected? Cap’n Transit: No Way
- Truck Traffic Fix on Columbia Street: Residents Get Beer Distributor to Use BQE Instead (Bklyn Paper)
- SUV Flips Onto Sidewalk in Woodhaven Crash (Post)
- Reverse Road Diet in Jersey City: Sidewalks Narrowed to Make Way for Cars (Jersey Journal via @TSTC)
- Philly’s Reconstructed South Street Bridge Re-Opened as a More Complete Street (Inquirer)
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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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