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By Ben Fried

8:59 AM EDT on August 8, 2012

So Far, 2012 Is the Northeast’s Hottest Year on Record (AP)
Hit-and-Run Driver Charged With Manslaughter for Killing Sunset Park Dad (News, Post, City Room)
More on the Brooklyn Bridge Bike/Ped Expansion Proposal (NYT, WSJ, Bklyn Paper, CapNY, Observer)
…Just Another Occasion for the Post to Spew Bike Hate
Will Straphangers End Up Subsidizing Road-Pulverizing Fracking Trucks? (Times-Union)
Cap’n Transit: Escape the Tappan Zee Death Spiral — Repair, Don’t Replace, the Bridge
Lawless Jay Street Takes the Brooklyn Paper‘s Prize for Borough’s Scariest Bike Lane
NYMTC Wants Your Ideas for the Region’s Long-Term Transpo Plan (MTR)
Port Authority Toll Breaks Take Effect for Staten Island Drivers, in the Works for Truckers (Advance)
Damned Bike Lanes (Brooklyn Spoke)

More headlines at Streetsblog Capitol Hill

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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