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By Ben Fried

8:56 AM EDT on June 21, 2011

Yellow Cab Lobby Protests Bloomberg’s Plan to Let Livery Cabs Pick Up Street Hails (NYT)
Taxi Workers Group Splinters Off From Opposition, Endorses Bloomberg Plan (DNAinfo, NY1)
Schumer: Use Unspent ARC Funds to Finish East-Side Access Mega-Project (Transpo Nation)
Hit-and-Run Driver Who Put Mayoral Staffer in Coma Could Face Four Years (News)
The GOP Attempt to Defund Northeast Rail That No One’s Talking About (MTR)
Ben Kabak Games Out the Future of DOT’s Better-Buses-to-LaGuardia Project
Whom Do You Believe: Alleged Parking Agent Harasser Dan Halloran, or the Agent He Defamed? (News)
Placard Abuse Hotspot: NYPD and DOT Offices in LIC (News)
Milestone Out West: SF Resident Reclaims Curb Lane in Front of His House (Streetsblog SF)
Attention Park Slope Parents and Other Humans: Beware Child-Impaling Bumper Guards (FiPS)

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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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