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By Ben Fried

8:57 AM EDT on March 26, 2012

What Did State Senate Republicans Get in Exchange for Letting the MTA Borrow More Money? (AP)
Problem for Car Makers: MTV Marketers Can’t Make Driving Less Miserable and Expensive (NYT)
After Just Two Months, 10 Percent of S.I. Bus Riders Use MTA BusTime (TransNat)
Two Cops Hospitalized After Livery Cab Driver Collides With Police Cruiser (Post)
Wouldn’t It Be Great If the News Devoted This Much Space to the Thousands of Injuries on NYC Streets?
Scandal! Crack Investigators at the Post Expose Bell-Less Central Park Bike Rental
CB 15 Chair: Don’t Even Think of Making Southern Brooklyn Streets Safer (Sheepshead Bites)
Meet Matt Green, Soon to Be the Only Person to Experience Every NYC Street Firsthand (NYT)
Five Years Ago, You Never Would Have Seen This on Grand Street (Bklyn Spoke)
Kind Streets (NYT)

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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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