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By Ben Fried

9:00 AM EDT on May 8, 2012

Citi Bike All Over the News (NYT, News, Post, WSJ, NY1, DNA, NBC, CBS, Politicker, Bloomberg, TN)
Bike-Share Misconception #1: Expecting It to Be Used for All-Day Jaunts (Gothamist, Post, Felix Salmon)
Bike-Share Misconception #2: Expecting Pedestrians to Get Hurt By People Riding Shared Bikes (News)
Queens Feeling Slighted About Getting Shut Out of Citi Bike, Even Though LIC Will Have It (QChron)
NYC’s Sheridan Teardown Study Delayed By a Year (News)
Help Make the Teardown Happen: The South Bronx River Watershed Alliance Is Hiring (MTR)
DOT Proposes Sharrows for Ashland Place in Fort Greene (Brownstoner)
Reviving the Rockaway Branch as a North-South Subway Connection for Queens (2nd Ave Sagas)
Why Are the Dollar Vans on Flatbush So Busted? (Cap’n Transit)
New Bruce Appleyard Research: Driving Kids Everywhere Kills Their Sense of Place (Atlantic Cities)

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Ben Fried

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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