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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

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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