Today’s Headlines
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By
Ben Fried
8:49 AM EDT on July 29, 2011
- One or Two Things Go Wrong, and the MTA Budget Will Be in Shambles (MTR)
- Mayor Menino at Boston Bike-Share Launch: “The Car Is No Longer King” (Herald)
- More Coverage of Yesterday’s Q Poll and Bike Counts: Bklyn Paper, Post, DNAinfo, City Room
- That’s It? Turn Signal and Ped Countdowns Contemplated for Deadly Harlem Intersection (DNAinfo)
- Jamaica Parents Pursue Civil Action Against Drunk Driver Who Killed Their Daughter (Queens Chron)
- Westchester Exec Calls for Building New Tappan Zee Bridge Sans Transit (MTR)
- Alex Marshall: Lessons for the MTA From the Next Transit System Jay Walder Will Run (News)
- MTA Gets 700 Texts a Day Asking for Real-Time Info on the B63 (Transpo Nation)
- Real-Time Bus Info Coming to All of Staten Island Before the Year Is Out (2nd Ave Sagas)
- The Wrong Way to Put a Price on Parking (West Side Spirit)
- Celeb Chef Marcus Samuelsson Invites You to Go Out for Dinner and a Bike Ride (Gothamist)
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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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