Today’s Headlines
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By
Ben Fried
8:51 AM EDT on September 13, 2011
- It’s Election Day and the Polls Are Open (MTR, News)
- Health Commish: Slowing Traffic Can Reduce Fatal and Severe Injuries to NYC Kids (News)
- Popular Union Square Public Space Improvements Get the Grynbaum Treatment (City Room)
- Forget Albany — High School Students Are Bankrupting the MTA! (News)
- Newsday to Albany: More Red Light Cams for Long Island and NYC, Please
- Security Theater Unbearable to the Post When It’s Cars Getting Stopped
- Revenge of the Dinkins Commissioners Continues (Post)
- Inclusion of PRT Sullies Credibility of WSJ‘s “How to Green Your City” List
- File Under “Good Problems to Have”: Copenhagen’s Bike Congestion (Guardian)
- Damned Bike Lanes (Bklyn Paper)
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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