Today’s Headlines
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By
Ben Fried
8:54 AM EDT on July 16, 2018
- Families for Safe Streets Takes It Straight to John Flanagan at His Suffolk Home (CBS 880)
- Rampant Mechanical Defects Slowing Down Train Service, Subway Workers Tell the Post
- In 10 Years, DOT’s Plaza Program Has Turned Space for Cars Into 74 Places for People (NYT)
- Corey Johnson’s “DOT Ombudsman” Bill Is a NIMBY Empowerment Act (QChron)
- Driver Seriously Injures Man on Northern Boulevard in Jackson Heights (News)
- NY1 Previews the Coming Fight Over Commercial Trash Carting Reform
- Staten Islanders Rally for Safer Streets at Borough Hall (Advance)
- A Dispatch From the First Weekend of Dockless Bike-Share in the Rockaways (AMNY)
- TWU Prez Tony Utano: Dockless Bike-Share Jobs Pay Less Than Citi Bike and Lack Benefits (News)
- Hundreds Have Signed on to Support Safer Bike Lanes on Utopia Parkway (QChron)
- Now’s the Time to Design Good Walking and Biking Connections for the Next Grand Street Bridge (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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