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Ben Fried
8:56 AM EST on February 16, 2015
- Bus Driver Charged With Misdemeanor Failure-to-Yield for Injuring Pedestrian (News, Bklyn Paper)
- Three Council Members Intro Bill to Let Bus Drivers Strike People in Crosswalks (Legistar)
- In His Take on the Collision, Pete Donohue Barely Mentions the Girl Whose Leg Was Crushed (News)
- TWU Prez Samuelsen to Bus Operators: Drive Carefully (TWU)
- NYC Would Be a Shell of Its Current Self Without the MTA Capital Program (MTR)
- Dana Lerner: There Needs to Be a New York City Road Test for Cabbies (NYPress)
- How Come Chuck Schumer Never Leaps Into Action to Double Funding for Ped/Bike Safety? (AMNY)
- Denis Hamill Turns a Traffic Ticket Into a Column (News)
- New Luxe Amenity in Alphabet City: A Subway Shuttle (Post)
- Who Will Be the Next Port Authority Chief? (Capital)
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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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