Today’s Headlines
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By
Ben Fried
8:54 AM EST on February 19, 2016
- Hit a Cop With Your Car, You’re Getting Arrested (News, Post); Strike and Kill a Civilian? Meh
- Donovan Richards to DOT: Put a Speed Camera Where Van Driver Killed 16-Year-Old Alexa Smith (TL)
- Manhattan CB 4 Wants to See All the Local Police Reports for Crashes That Injured Pedestrians (DNA)
- Meanwhile, Brooklyn CB 4 Remains Stuck in the Stone Age of Streets Policy (Bklyn Paper)
- Port Authority Might Not Actually Contribute to Penn Station Overhaul (WSJ – Paywall)
- Serious People Will Judge the Upcoming Port Authority Bus Terminal Design Competition (Politico)
- One Entrance No Longer Enough for DUMBO’s York Street F Station (Bklyn Paper)
- 20 Elected Officials Want More Subsidies for East River Ferry (News)
- EDC Picks a Newcomer to Run Expanded East River Ferry Service (Crain’s)
- DOT’s Vision Zero Awareness Campaign Goes Multi-Lingual (News)
- Maybe NYC Doesn’t Need On-Demand Valet Parking Start-Ups (Crain’s)
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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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