Today’s Headlines
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By
Ben Fried
8:59 AM EST on January 4, 2012
- For Drivers Who Value Their Time, Paying Tolls Is Well Worth It (NYT)
- Work Rules and/or Staffing Incompetence Kept MTA From Saving on Labor This Holiday (Post)
- Samuelsen Draws Line in the Sand Over Shift to Part-Time Bus Drivers (Post)
- Speculation About Next Council Speaker Circles Back to Mark-Viverito vs. Dickens (Politicker)
- QueensWay Debate: Turn Defunct LIRR Tracks Into a Greenway, or Restore Rail Service? (News)
- Unlicensed Hit-and-Run Driver Gets 60-Day Sentence for Killing Motorcyclist in Manhattan (Post)
- Retired PANYNJ Cop Sues Port Authority Over Loss of Lifetime Free Driving Perk (WSJ)
- City Helps Randall’s Island Parks Flourish While Letting East Harlem’s Esplanade Fall Apart (News)
- WNYC Explores the City’s “Ghost System” of Unused Subway Track
- In Praise of Very Narrow Streets (Cap’n Transit)
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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