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By Ben Fried

8:48 AM EDT on October 20, 2015

Veronica Vanterpool: We Don’t Have to Wait for Gateway to Improve Trans-Hudson Transit (Crain’s)
Cab Driver Who Killed Two on Bronx Sidewalk Charged With Manslaughter (Gothamist)
Is the MTA in Good Enough Shape to Revive the B71 and F Express? (Bklyn Paper)
AMNY Runs Down What’s in the Next MTA Capital Plan
With MTA Capital Plan Purportedly Funded, Upstate Lawmakers Want Money for Roads (Politico)
Chin and Brewer Intro Bill to Cap Number of Tour Buses in NYC (DNA)
Students, Parents, and Teachers Terrified of Crossing 47th Street By PS 343 in Sunnyside (DNA)
Uber Looking to Expand to the Rest of New York State (News)
A Guide to the Uber/Medallion Wars in NYC (Crain’s)
The Department of Transformation Strikes Again (Gothamist)

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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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