Today’s Headlines
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By
Ben Fried
8:53 AM EDT on July 28, 2014
- Potential Citi Bike Expansion Timeline: Double the Size by 2017 (NYT)
- Will Riders Pay for the $12 Billion Shortfall in the MTA Capital Program? (2nd Ave Sagas)
- Riders Alliance Organizing to Extend Transit Tax Benefit to 600,000 New Yorkers (WNYC)
- Gelinas: The Most Orderly Part of Times Square Is the Completed Section of Pedestrian Plaza (Post)
- Driver Kills 81-Year-Old Woman in Bath Beach; No Charges (DNA)
- Drunk Driver Strikes and Kills Woman Minutes After She Refused to Ride With Him (Newsday)
- Family and Friends Mourn Joie Sellers, Killed by Man Driving Stolen Van July 2 (News)
- Pedestrians and Passengers Seriously Hurt as Driver Suffers Heart Attack on Astoria Streets (News)
- Citi Bike Comes Out Looking Like a Great Value in the Post‘s Taxi vs. Uber Test
- Starting This Summer, the B44 Bus Lane Is Going to Work a Lot Better (Bklyn Paper)
- Epic NYC Toll Dysfunction on Varick Street (Bklyn Spoke)
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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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