Today’s Headlines
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By
Ben Fried
9:06 AM EDT on May 24, 2011
- Ticket-Fixing Cops Now a Liability for Prosecutions in NYC (NYT, Post)
- On-Time Performance Drops Markedly on Numbered Subway Lines (City Room, 2nd Ave Sagas)
- Truck Mirror Bill Passes State Senate, on the Fast Track to Assembly Vote (News)
- Woman Plows Range Rover Into Queens Rite-Aid, Injuring Two Cashiers (Post)
- Why Placards Must Go: Free Passes Mess Up Performance Parking for Everyone Else (Yglesias)
- Patchogue Church Gives Away Bikes to Workers Who Can’t Afford a Car (Transpo Nation)
- Tom Vanderbilt: “Children at Play” Signs Make It More Dangerous for Children to Play (Slate)
- Markowitz Fine With Bike Lanes as Long as They’re Expensive Fantasies (Bklyn Paper)
- City Explores Giving Scofflaw Parkers the Boot (News)
- Google’s Robo-Car Evangelists Sound an Awful Lot Like PRT Believers (TPM)
- Never Heed Advice on How to Be Taken Seriously From Someone Called “The Crapper”
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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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