Today’s Headlines
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By
Ben Fried
8:48 AM EDT on May 24, 2016
- Riders Alliance: L Train Riders Want Bus Lanes and Bike Lanes While Subway’s Shut Down (AMNY)
- TLC Setting New Rules to Reduce Fatigued Driving — How About Better Pay? (News)
- Cuomo’s State DOT Refuses to Tell the Public How It’s Spending Their Money (MTR)
- Christie Vetoes Port Authority Reform Bill (Crain’s)
- With the Q Getting Routed to Second Avenue, MTA Will Revive the W (2nd Ave Sagas, AMNY)
- A Post Editor Racked Up 2,000 Miles on Citi Bike
- The Daily News Sides With David Greenfield on F Express
- Letting the Noisiest Voices Dictate the Agenda Is No Way to Set Transportation Policy (IVM)
- Fear and Loathing on Queens Boulevard (TL)
- Reimagining the Streets Underneath the Livonia Avenue Elevated (ioby)
- The Infrastructure Fantasy That Makes Gondolas Look Great (Curbed, DNA)
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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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