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By Ben Fried

8:59 AM EDT on July 3, 2012

NYPD Completely Failing to Enforce Speed Limit in Northwest Brooklyn (Bklyn Paper)
FDNY Truck Responding to Fire Kills Motorcyclist in Bed Stuy (NYT)
Now That Congress Has Passed a Transpo Bill, It’s Up to States to Enact Reforms (MTR)
Dreading the Unfunded Mandate Imposed by New Federal Transit Safety Regs (2nd Ave Sagas)
Massive E-ZPass Discount in the Works for Drivers on Port Authority’s SI Bridges (Post)
NYC EDC Violated Lobbying Rules on Willets Point, Coney Island Mega-Projects (WSJ)
Bklyn Paper Tests Bus-Time App on B61, and Finds It Works Perfectly
Why You Should Care About the Cross-Harbor Freight Tunnel (Cap’n Transit)
Bike-Share as a Gateway Drug (Transpo Nation)
Did the Koch Brothers Bankroll 1980s Disney Comics? (Grist)

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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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