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Ben Fried
8:51 AM EDT on October 27, 2015
- Van Bramer: Cut Congestion, Fund Transit With Move NY Toll Reform (News)
- TransAlt Catches Up With Janette Sadik-Khan
- Three Ideas to Help Make a New Round of Subway Expansion Happen (WNYC)
- Here’s Where the Next Batch of Countdown Clocks Are Going (AMNY)
- Without Hudson Yards Development, Ridership at Hudson Yards Subway Stop Underwhelms (AMNY)
- Cuomo Fixates on LaGuardia, Which Serves One Eighth as Many People as Hudson Crossings (MTR)
- Sluggish Rollout of Next-Gen MTA Fare Payment Slows Down Some More (2nd Ave Sagas)
- New Tappan Zee Bus Service Gets $10M From Feds (LoHud)
- Motorcyclist Killed in Solo Crash on Steinway Street (DNA)
- Former MTA Chair Virgil Conway Dies at 85 (NYT)
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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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