Today’s Headlines
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By
Ben Fried
8:49 AM EST on December 8, 2014
- If the MTA Raises Fares Just a Bit, Does Anybody Go to the Hearings? (News)
- Rush Hour Port Authority Crossings Now Cost $11.75 (AMNY); East River Bridges Still Free
- Dan Doctoroff Is Back, Selling an Absurdly Complex Mega-Project (News)
- Turning Teen Driver Kills 84-Year-Old Man in Jamaica Estates (News)
- Cab Driver Hits Pedestrian on Upper West Side, and NYPD Knows Nothing About It (WSR)
- Relive the Time When NYC DOT Got Stuff Done, With JSK’s Retrospective Coming in 2016 (NYT)
- Steve Matteo Has It Out for the Camera That Catches the Most Speeders on Staten Island (Advance)
- Nassau Knows Its Speed Cams Are Working and Ed Mangano Still Wants to Neuter Them (MTR)
- Steve Cuozzo Catches Fleeting Glimpse of Unicorn, er, Second Ave Subway Station (Post)
- Cap’n Transit: Shouldn’t Road Builders Pay the Public Back for Awful Projects?
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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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