Today’s Headlines
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By
Ben Fried
8:48 AM EDT on October 20, 2014
- Remembering New Yorkers Who Lost Their Lives to Traffic Violence (NYMag, WPIX, News, Right of Way)
- Advocates for Walking and Biking Access on the Verrazano Rally in Staten Island (Advance)
- New Tappan Zee Is Rising, So Where’s the Progress on Bus Improvements Cuomo Promised? (LoHud)
- Rest in Peace William Ronan, First Chair of the MTA (NYT)
- The Post Files a Vision Zero Status Report: Traffic Deaths Down 10% in 2014
- Ignorant Rants About Speed Enforcement Have a Home on the Daily News Editorial Page
- Dangerous Stretch of Broadway in Elmhurst Slated for Road Diet (DNA)
- Ozone Park Residents Defend Pedestrian Plaza From Parking-Obsessed Merchants (QChron)
- City Shutting Down Rockaway Ferry on Halloween After Spending a Scary $30/Passenger Trip (CapNY)
- Financier Harry Wagner Caught Committing a Door-and-Run in Midtown (Complex)
- The Case for Elevated Bikeways in NYC Remains Completely Unconvincing (City Journal)
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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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