Today’s Headlines
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By
Ben Fried
8:53 AM EDT on August 5, 2014
- Which NYC Streets Won’t Get the Default 25 MPH Speed Limit? (News)
- More Coverage of New 25 MPH Arterial Streets (DNA 1, 2, 3; Post)
- Lawsuit: NYPD Dispersed Witnesses After Officer Ran Over and Killed Ryo Oyamada (Gothamist)
- Painting the Street to Remember Lives Lost to Traffic Violence (NYT, Right of Way)
- Kate Hinds Discusses the State of Citi Bike on WNYC
- Who Would Have Left in Albany in Cuffs If Cuomo Hadn’t Disbanded Moreland Commission? (Post)
- Two Injured When Drivers Collide at 10th Avenue and 38th Street (DNA)
- DOT Bringing Safer Pedestrian Crossings and New Plaza Space Near Douglaston LIRR (QChron)
- New M100 Bus Stop Dumps Passengers Off Into a Traffic Lane (DNA)
- TransAlt Talks to 78th Precinct Community Council Prez Wayne Bailey (BikeNYC)
- Coming Soon: One Less Parking Lot in the Theater District (Crain’s)
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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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