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By Ben Fried

8:59 AM EST on January 24, 2012

Bklyn Paper, Gothamist, City Room, Voice Cover NYPD’s Bungled Investigation of Mathieu Lefevre’s Death
Times Transpo Beat: That Darned Subway Opossum!
VMT Fees? We’ll See What the Supreme Court Has to Say About That… (NYT)
MTA to Roll Out Real-Time Bus Tracking in the Bronx and a Borough-to-Be-Named-Later in 2012 (DNA)
So Far, So Good for MTA’s Experiment in Intensive Overnight Maintenance on Weekdays (NY1)
Ten Hurt in Park Avenue Cab Crash, Seven Injured in Eastern Parkway Wreck on Sunday (DNA 1, 2)
How the Shrinking Transit Tax Benefit Costs Commuters in the NYC Region (MTR)
Bloomberg Handicaps the 2013 Mayoral Race: “Very Hard to See a Republican Coming Along” (Post)
Semi-Truck Driver Rams Highway Overpass, Injures Two Bridge Inspectors (Post)
The Flash Gets Schooled on Induced Demand (Planetizen)

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Ben Fried

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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