Today’s Headlines
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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)
More headlines at Streetsblog Capitol Hill
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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