Today’s Headlines
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By
Ben Fried
8:59 AM EST on February 16, 2012
- Read All About NYPD’s Failure to Investigate Crashes (Gothamist, NYT, News, CapNY, WNYC, NY1, VV)
- Post Readers Get the In-Depth Story
- Erika Lefevre: “I Do Not Believe Drivers Who Cause Deaths Should Be Able to Walk Away” (Bklyn Paper)
- NYPD Issued More Summonses to Cyclists Than to Truckers Last Year (TransNat)
- Tri-State: State Docs Don’t Show How “Future Transit” Would Actually Work on the New Tappan Zee
- Merchants on 37th Road Want to “Bring More Traffic Into the Congested Heart of Little India” (News)
- Glendale Businesses, Retired Cop Gung-Ho About Bringing a Plaza to 70th Street (News)
- 12 People Hurt in Car-Bus Crash in Crown Heights (DNA)
- Passengers Leap to Defend Megabus (DNA)
- Lifestyles of the Rich and Car-Owning (Bklyn Paper)
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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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