Today’s Headlines
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By
Ben Fried
9:04 AM EDT on March 16, 2011
- Q Poll: Bloomberg Approval at Eight-Year Low (News)
- Daily News Smirks Over Watered-Down 34th Street Plans; Bashes JSK for Good Measure
- Bike Lanes Don’t Get Any Better Than the One on Prospect Park West (Patch)
- Norm Steisel and Iris Weinshall No Longer the Spokespeople for NBBL, For Some Reason (Patch)
- If You Erase a Popular Project That Works Very Well, Can You Call That a “Compromise”? (Bklyn Paper)
- Northeast Corridor Now Eligible to Receive Florida’s Forsaken HSR Money (Transpo Nation)
- In SF, Bloomberg Sticks Up for JSK and Street Redesigns: “The Key Is Pedestrian Safety” (Bay Guardian)
- DOT Big: Downtown Brooklyn a Key Location for Future NYC Bike-Share (Bklyn Paper)
- Warning: Reading This NY Post Story on the Central Park Bike Crackdown May Raise Your Blood Pressure
- Road Pricing, Ray Kelly Style: NYPD Wants a Cut From Marathons and Bike Rides (Post)
- There’s Less Speeding on I-95 in the Bronx Than on the Old PPW (NYT)
- Crazy 70 mph Speeder Who Hurt Two Cops Might Have Been a Cop Himself (Patch)
- NYC’s Bike Backlash Capo Is the Top Communicator for National Dems; Read the Glowing NYT Profile
- Parking Geeks, Rejoice! Data From Groundbreaking SFPark About to Start Rolling In (Streetsblog SF)
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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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