Today’s Headlines
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By
Ben Fried
8:59 AM EDT on October 25, 2011
- No Charges for Truck Driver Who Killed Cyclist Mathieu Lefevre and Left Scene (Gothamist)
- MTA Aiming to Go Live With Citywide Real-Time Bus Info in 18 Months (2nd Ave Sagas)
- Angotti: “We Need One Street System Connecting Us All, Not 59 Isolated Enclaves” (Gotham Gaz)
- Companies Favored By Markowitz Gave Millions to His Non-Profits (NYT)
- Cap’n Transit: Traffic Projections Justifying Wider Tappan Zee Bridge Are Bogus (1, 2)
- Yassky to Cabbies: Quit the Useless Honking or You’ll Get Fined; Horn Addicts: No Way (News)
- Dirt-Cheap Metro-North Parking Permits Get Handed Down Like Heirlooms (WSJ)
- Searching for Meaning in the MTA’s Annual Rider Survey (Gothamist, NY1)
- Countdown Clocks Linked to Higher Straphanger Satisfaction (WSJ, 2nd Ave Sagas)
- Will Riders Strew Less Litter in Subway Stations Without Trash Cans? (NYT, News, Post)
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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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