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By
Ben Fried
8:50 AM EST on March 8, 2016
- Dan Squadron: MTA Capital Plan Shouldn’t Be Funded “With an IOU” (NY1)
- Ben Kabak: Cuomo Just Isn’t Funding the MTA
- One Thing Cuomo’s Doing Right: Pushing for LIRR Third Track (Newsday – Paywall)
- Impending Transit Strike or No, Chris Christie Is Taking a Break (APP)
- Christie’s Been Treating the Whole NJ Transit System Like a Contingency Plan for Years (MTR)
- Hit-and-Run Driver Critically Injures Woman in Allerton (News, AMNY)
- What If Every Vehicle in Motion Had to Broadcast a Periscope Stream? (Post)
- Steve Cuozzo and the Dehumanization of Delivery Cyclists (Brooklyn Spoke)
- DNAinfo Confirms That People Don’t Like to Sit in Between Other People on the Train
- Potholes, Potholes, Potholes (News)
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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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