Today’s Headlines
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By
Ben Fried
8:50 AM EDT on October 13, 2015
- Shocker: Cuomo Will Probably Pay for MTA Capital Program By Borrowing (News)
- NYT: Albany Should Pay for MTA With Higher Gas Tax or Tolls on Free East River Bridges
- Here’s How Much Rolling Stock the Capital Program Will Buy for NYC (Crain’s)
- And Here’s What the Daily News Thinks of the MTA Funding Deal
- Coke Truck Driver Crashes Into Bronx Bus Stop, Killing Sheniqua Silva, 37 (NBC, NYT, Post)
- Truck Traffic in NYC Is Worse Than Any Other Big City in America (WNYC)
- Carl Weisbrod Wants to Set Up a New Regional Planning Office Inside DCP (Politico)
- Safer Intersections Coming to Upper East Side Avenues (DNA)
- Sheepshead Bay “Community Leaders” Freak Out About Parking Reform (Sheepshead Bites)
- Home Reporter Gives Verrazano Bike/Walk Path the He Said-She Said Treatment
- “I Love Bikes, But Because I Have a Car, I Hate the Bikes Now” (Brooklyn Paper)
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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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