Today’s Headlines
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By
Ben Fried
8:58 AM EDT on August 26, 2013
- Times Endorses Quinn and Lhota in Primary
- To the Daily News, Cyclist Shares Responsibility With Cab Driver for Midtown Crash Horror
- Outstanding Opinion Piece on Cab Violence and Traffic Justice in the Post
- Turning Truck Driver Kills 73-Year-Old Crossing Houston Street; No Charges (NBC)
- MTA Bus Driver Seriously Injures 11-Year-Old Boy on Bike in Cypress Hills (News)
- Cyclists Ask DOT to Pick Up the Pace Restriping Bike Lanes on Repaved Streets (Bklyn Paper)
- Clyde Haberman Sits Down With Straphangers’ Gene Russianoff (NYT)
- Bloomberg Expected to Discuss NYC’s New Speed Cam Program Today (AP)
- 107 Road Rage Crashes in Manhattan This Year; AAA: That’s Just How It Is (Post)
- Anthony Weiner Involved in Three-Car Crash on FDR, No One Hurt (NYT)
- MTR Wraps Up Its Five-Part Series on Funding Transit With Value Capture
More headlines at Streetsblog Capitol Hill
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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