Today’s Headlines
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By
Ben Fried
9:15 AM EDT on April 19, 2011
- Building a Better Bus Terminal Might Be the Most Important Transit Project in the NYC Region (WSJ)
- NYPD Union Delegates, Highway Patrol Implicated in Ticket-Fixing Scandal (NYT, Post)
- Bloomberg: Ticket-Fixing Couldn’t Happen Today (DNAinfo, NY1)
- Van Driver Critically Injures Woman in Sunset Park; NYPD: “No Criminality” (Post)
- Gotham Gazette Checks in on PlaNYC’s Progress
- Conservatives and Libertarians Call Out O’Toole, Side With Shoup in Parking Debate (Cato Unbound)
- As West Side Booms, 34th Street’s Crowded Sidewalks and Pokey Buses Must Evolve (MTR)
- Can Every Community Get Their MTA Bus Service Restored By Gathering Enough Signatures? (DNAinfo)
- Times Square: So Crowded, No One Goes There Anymore (Metro)
- Bike Lane Blocking Pics, Tax Day Edition (Gothamist)
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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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