Today’s Headlines
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By
Ben Fried
9:05 AM EST on February 20, 2012
- Rising Gas Prices Trigger GOP Drill-Baby-Drill Demagoguery (NYT)
- NBBL Forced NYC to Spend $140,000 in Taxpayer Funds Defending a Safer Street in Court (Bklyn Paper)
- So This Is What It Takes for Police to Charge a Driver With Reckless Endangerment (Post)
- Six Injured in Two-Car Crash in Harlem Yesterday (DNA)
- In Eastern Queens, Community Board 13 Wants DOT to Install 20 MPH Zones (QChron)
- See What the Hugely Expensive Fulton Transit Center Will Look Like (DNA)
- SF Will Equip All of Its Buses With Bus Lane Enforcement Cams By Next Year (Atlantic Cities)
- British Bus Driver Gets 17 Months for Deliberately Ramming, Injuring Cyclist (MSNBC)
- Driver and Passenger Critical After Smashing Into “Pillar” on Jerome Ave (DNA)
- Street Furniture Innovation of the Year: The Phone Booth Library (Gothamist)
More headlines at Streetsblog Capitol Hill
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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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