Today’s Headlines
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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 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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