Today’s Headlines
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By
Ben Fried
8:59 AM EST on March 8, 2012
- More Pedestrians Killed on Hempstead Turnpike Than Any Other Road in the Region (MTR)
- Daily News to Albany: No More MTA Service Cuts; Curb Pension Costs (1, 2)
- Shocker: The Post Firmly in the “Drill, Baby, Drill” Camp
- So Many People Want to Weigh in on Tappan Zee, U.S. DOT Extends Comment Period (Transpo Nation)
- More Scenes of Community-Based Bike Planning From Western Queens (News)
- Parks Dept Still Hasn’t Fixed the Washed Out Mess at the Plumb Beach Bike Path (Sheepshead Bites)
- Under Pat Foye, Is the Port Authority Planning to Keep the Container Port in Red Hook? (Bklyn Paper)
- Looks Like the MTA’s “Fastrack” Maintenance Approach Is the New Normal (NY1)
- Double-Parked Driver Drags Cop in Attempt to Flee (Post)
- Streetsblog Publisher Mark Gorton Takes on Universal’s Lorax Impostor (MNN)
- NBBLs of the Future Will Get Bots to Do Their Commenting Dirty Work (Harvard Law)
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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