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By Ben Fried

8:59 AM EST on February 8, 2016

Orcutt: Market for Brooklyn-Queens Streetcar Route Seems Far Too Small to Justify $2.5 Billion (News)
More Skeptical Takes on Streetcar: David Bragdon (Bklyn Paper), Vanterpool and Kabak (Guardian)
Give These Southern Brooklyn Pols Some Bus Lanes! (Bklyn Paper)
Sam Schwartz Makes His Case for BQX (News)
See All the Zigs and Zags the Streetcar Would Make in This Crain’s Map
School Bus Driver Kills Woman, 54, on Crown Heights Sidewalk (Gothamist)
Hit-and-Run Driver Who Killed Charity Hicks Is the Son of a Cop (PINAC)
Uber Drivers Are Working to the Point of Exhaustion (Post)
Breakaway Courier’s Rob Kotch Goes Undercover to Take Down Uber’s Bike Messenger Biz (Crain’s)
The Decline of the Port Authority (City Journal)

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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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