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Ben Fried
8:57 AM EDT on March 23, 2015
- Thanks, Cuomo: Transit Fares Rise for Fifth Time in Eight Years (AMNY, Post, News)
- Albany Feels No Urgency to Avoid Future Fare Hikes (News)
- The NYC Transit System in 2015: Higher Fares, Worse Service, Apathetic Government (News)
- MTA Blames Unreliable Subway Service on High Ridership (DNA)
- Green Taxi Driver Jumps Curb, Kills Two People at Grand Concourse Bus Stop (News, Gothamist)
- Daily News: Driving Into Someone Who Has the Right of Way Shouldn’t Be a Crime
- Three Dead After Off-Duty NJ Cop Drives Wrong Way on Staten Island Highway (Post)
- The C Train and Its 50-Year-Old Cars Rattle On (WNYC)
- DNA Covers DOT’s Underwhelming Safety Plan for 21st Street in Astoria
- How Plans to Cut Regional Freight Truck Traffic Play at Bay Ridge CB 10 (Bklyn Paper)
- Pols Ask for Daily Ferry Service to Gov’s Island From Brooklyn (CapNY)
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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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