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By
Ben Fried
8:55 AM EDT on March 9, 2015
- TLC’s New Cabbie Test: More Questions About Safety, Fewer About Geography (NYT)
- Will the Vision Zero Reconstruction of Fourth Avenue Include Protected Bike Lanes? (Bklyn Paper)
- Looking at Transit-Oriented Development Beyond NYC to Make NYC Housing More Affordable (CapNY)
- Steve Hindy: Right-of-Way Law Should Apply to Everyone, Including Bus Drivers (Crain’s)
- YIMBY Foresees Unintended Consequences of Lower Parking Mandates for Affordable Housing
- Van Driver Skids and Strikes Traffic Agent in Midtown (DNA)
- How to Get Charged With Reckless Driving in NYC (Post)
- Driver Smashes Up Front of Church in Nassau (Post)
- Prendergast Wants to Deploy Subway Clerks Outside the Booth (News)
- Weprin vs. Weprin (Post)
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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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