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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

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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