Today’s Headlines
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By
Ben Fried
9:00 AM EST on December 20, 2010
- Vacca, Reyna, Queens Pols Shake Fists Over Rising Meter Rates (Queens Courier, Transpo Nation)
- Three City Workers Busted For Drunk Driving in One Day (News)
- With Fare Hikes About to Kick In, NY1 Does a Quick MTA Year-in-Review
- Pete Donohue: Frivolous Lawsuits Against MTA Hurt Us All (News)
- Speed Bumps Coming to Astoria’s 21st Ave (Queens Chron)
- No Jail For Hit-and-Run Wealth Manager Who Left Cyclist For Dead in Vail (ABC Denver)
- Markowitz’s “Favorite Lanes” Schtick Gets Even More Ink (News)
- Marty Should Sue NYT Cartoonist Bruce McCall For Theft of Intellectual Property
- You Might Be a Transpo Geek If… (How We Drive)
- Step Aside, Motörhead, and Make Way For “Bike Lane” (Brooklyn 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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