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By Ben Fried

8:51 AM EDT on March 22, 2016

Heard This One Before? Bratton Wants to Hire 327 Traffic Agents to “Reduce Congestion” (Post)
MTA Knew About Leakage at Hudson Yards 7 Station Since 2012 (WNYC, NYT, News)
City Council’s 2016 Albany Priorities Include Toll Plan “Such as the One Proposed by Move NY” (Politico)
MTA Bus Driver Hits FDR Support Beam, Injuring Several Passengers (DNA, News, Post)
Driver Crashes Into Home on Bruckner Blvd and Flees (News, Post)
Hit-and-Run Cabbie Who Struck and Killed a Person Says He Thought He Hit a Pothole (Gothamist)
How Come So Many Staten Island Bus Drivers Don’t Let Passengers Board? (Advance)
DNA Reports on the UES Crosstown Bike Lane Situation With a Straight Face
MAS President Gina Pollara Loves the $4 Billion Calatrava PATH Station (Crain’s)
Camden Will Add Some Parking Tumors to Its Infamous Downtown Parking Crater (MTR)

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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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