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By Ben Fried

9:00 AM EST on November 21, 2012

Select Bus Service Only Gets NYC Part of the Way to a Real BRT Network (CapNY)
Kimmelman: Don’t Rebuild the City the Same as It Was Before the Storm (NYT)
Delivery Trucker Kills Skateboarder Near Union Square North (Gothamist)
Goodbye, Punching Bag — NYers Rate MTA’s Sandy Response Higher Than Red Cross’s (TransNat)
Can Inflatable Subway Tube Plugs Withstand the Next Flood and the Rats? (NYT)
Giuliani Camp Feeds the Lhota-for-Mayor Buzz (WSJ)
With Roads and Rails Devastated By Sandy, NJ Needs to Rethink Its Transpo Priorities (MTR)
Idling, Illegally Parked Livery Cars Swamp Neighborhood Streets Near Barclays Center (Bklyn Paper)
Times Transpo Beat: The Rental Car Situation Right Now Is So Seinfeldian
Daniel Craig’s Staten Island Road Test Got Him a Lifetime License to Drive Anywhere in NYC (Post)
“Asphalt Nation” Author Jane Holtz-Kay Is Dead at 74 (NYT)

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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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