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By Ben Fried

8:59 AM EDT on August 10, 2012

Kingston Daily Freeman on TZB: “Cuomo Avoiding Tough Stuff of Genuine Leadership”
The Problem With Cuomo’s TZB Isn’t the Tolls, It’s the Size of the Bridge (TransNat)
Motorists Create Perpetual Double-Parking Lane on Dean Street; NYPD Does Nothing (Bklyn Paper)
Gothamist Shreds Daily News Bike Haters
Loud, Speeding, Stunt-Pulling Motorcyclists Ruin Forest Park (News)
Apps for Cabbies. What Could Go Wrong? (NY1)
Hit-and Run Cabbie Hits Two Kids by Central Park (News, Post)
Alex Marshall: Let’s Apply Strict Liability to Traffic Crashes in U.S. (RPA)
A Voice of Reason From Flushing: No More Free Rides Over the East River (QChron)
The Brooklyn Paper Is Trying to Win Cyclists Over

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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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