Today’s Headlines
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By
Ben Fried
8:58 AM EDT on July 12, 2011
- City Expected to Select Bike-Share Contractor as Soon as Next Month (Transpo Nation)
- Unsolved Mystery: What’s Holding City Hall Back From Trying Out a Car-Free Central Park? (NYT)
- Desperate NBBL Lawyers Subpoena Lander and DOT, Issue Press Release About It (Post)
- Big Meeting at CB 7 Tonight on Creating Safe Crosstown Central Park Routes for Cyclists (DNAinfo)
- Goldsmith Hopes Private Firms Will Invest in Upgrading NYC’s Parking Tech (City Hall News)
- Metro-North Train Derails Outside Grand Central During PM Rush, No One Hurt (DNAinfo)
- After Bike-Ped Crash on Park Loop, Prospect Park Alliance Sets Up Task Force on Road Sharing (Patch)
- Enforcement and Education Get Distracted Driving Rates to Fall in Two Cities (NYT Bits)
- Working on a Killer App for MTA Riders? There Could Be $5,000 in It for You (NY1)
- A Walk Across the Triboro: Majestic Views, Inconvenience and Danger for Peds and Cyclists (City Room)
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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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