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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

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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