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By Ben Fried

8:59 AM EDT on May 1, 2012

Media Paying More Attention to Bronx Highway Tragedy Than Other Traffic Deaths (NYT, NY1, WSJ)
Imagine If Every Fatal Crash Prompted This Level of Engineering Analysis From the Daily News
AAA Blames Curb of Closed-Off Pedestrian Walkway on the Bronx River Parkway (Post)
Cap’n Transit: Put the Highway on a Diet, Save Lives
Judge Rejects Suit Seeking to Deny Curbside Access Near Port Authority to Megabus (DNA)
2008 LES Rezoning Impeding Development Near Delancey Street Subway (Crain’s)
Staten Island Cops Hand Out More Tickets for Tinted Windows Than for Speeding (Advance)
10,000 Cyclists Turn Out in London to Protest Lack of Safe Streets (Times of London)
Police Bias Against Cyclists: A National Perspective (Bicycling)
Complete Streets Laws All the Rage in Jersey (MTR)

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