Today’s Headlines
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By
Ben Fried
8:50 AM EDT on October 13, 2014
- Cuomo Should Slash MTA Construction Costs, Not the MTA’s Project List (YIMBY, Post)
- Metro-North Rail-Traffic Control Team Was Overworked During Spate of Crashes (News, Post)
- NYT: Eliminating Traffic Deaths “Should Not Be Impossible”
- Chuck Schumer: I Never Opposed PPW Bike Lane, But for Peace in the House, I Stayed Quiet (News)
- If You Got the Cars Out of Central Park, Then What? (WNYC)
- What It’s Like to Get Around NYC in a Wheelchair (AMNY)
- Coca-Cola Truck Driver Critically Injures 86-Year-Old Man Who Had the Right of Way (News)
- Sociopaths Use Parking Lot in Flushing Meadows-Corona Park as Personal Racetrack (DNA)
- Next City Profiles the Excellent Work of NYC’s Own StreetsPAC
- Staten Island Electeds Get the Traffic Mitigation Tech They Deserve (Advance)
- NYC in 2050 Will Be as Muggy as Alabama, But at Least We’ll Still Have All This Free Parking (WNYC)
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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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