Today’s Headlines
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By
Ben Fried
8:54 AM EDT on August 7, 2014
- No Drugs? No Charges From Vance So Far for Bus Driver Who Injured 15 in Times Square (News, Post)
- Tour Bus Driver Accelerated Before Crash (WSJ), Has History of License Suspensions (Post, News, NYT)
- Get to Know the Man Who Wants to “Proliferate Bike-Sharing Around the World” (WSJ)
- It’s Official: Cuomo Admin to Use Clean Water Funds to Keep Highway Bridge Tolls Low (CapNY)
- Espaillat: NYC Should Be Able to Place Speed Cameras Wherever They’re Needed (AMNY)
- 5 Years Into Federal High Speed Rail Program, the Times Is Getting Impatient
- Ex-NYPD Officer Pleads Guilty to Fatal Hit-and-Run on Hempstead Turnpike (Newsday via Gothamist)
- Lower Speed Limits Coming to Brooklyn’s Deadly Flatbush Avenue (Bklyn Paper)
- Cap’n Transit Nominates Newark’s McCarter Highway for Removal
- DNA Maps the Breeziest Summer Bike Routes
- Oh, People Who Don’t Drive, You Helpless Eccentrics (NYT)
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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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