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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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