Today’s Headlines
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Ben Fried
8:50 AM EST on March 2, 2015
- Will Speaker Heastie Come Out for the Move NY Plan? (Capital)
- AMNY: “It’s Time to Hit the Reset Button” on NYC’s Toll System
- Yesterday’s Rally to Keep NYC Streets Congested Looks Rather Sparsely Attended (Post)
- Free Bridges Aren’t Free — Taxpayers Will Shell Out $600M to Repair Brooklyn Bridge (News)
- Rory Lancman Joins the Ranks of Pols Out to Weaken the Right-of-Way Law (News)
- De Blasio Housing Plan Expected to Get a Hard Time From City Council (Crain’s)
- Staten Island’s Stapleton Development Could Be Model for “Proactive Pedestrian Safety Design” (Advance)
- State DOT Dresses Up Kosciuszko Widening With Bike Path (Bklyn Paper)
- Cab Driver Pins Woman Against Other Cab From Behind; No Charges (DNA)
- The Times‘ Tappan Zee Bridge Sycophancy Continues
- How NYC Taught Kids That Cars Kill, After Motordom Bullied People Off the Street (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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