Today’s Headlines
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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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