Today’s Headlines
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By
Ben Fried
8:53 AM EST on November 7, 2014
- The Default NYC Speed Limit Is a More Humane 25 MPH as of Today (WSJ, WNYC, AMNY)
- …and Post Headline Writers Are at a Loss
- How Come Cy Vance Doesn’t Treat Drivers Who Actually Kill as Seriously as This? (NYT, News)
- NBC News Van Strikes Woman at Redesigned-But-Still-Dangerous 96th and Broadway (Gothamist)
- Brad Aaron and Dana Lerner Talk to Business Insider About the Significance of Vision Zero
- Watch This Jim Hoffer Segment on Central Park Cyclists and Learn… Nothing (ABC 7)
- MTR Plucks Out the Bright Spots for Transportation Policy From Tuesday’s Elections
- What Do Random Drivers Think of Tolling Free East River Bridges? NY1 Reports
- DDC Finally Ready to Turn Dead Space at Foot of Manhattan Bridge Into a Plaza (Bowery Boogie)
- Bronx CB 8 Resolves to Push for $ to Study Hudson River Greenway Up to Yonkers (R’dale Press)
- Sunnyside Streets Are About to Get Safer (QChron)
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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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