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By Ben Fried

8:53 AM EDT on June 14, 2016

Cuomo’s Sinking Stakes in the Ground for His Pointless LaGuardia AirTrain (NY1)
Business and Labor Beg Albany to Pass Cost-Saving Design-Build Bill (Crain’s)
Fernando Cabrera: Ask Other Straphangers to Fund Fare Discounts for Low-Income Riders (AMNY)
Two Drivers and One Passenger Killed in Two Separate Crashes Yesterday (News)
While Legislators Hem and Haw on Speed Cams, Rail Crossing Safety Bills Breeze Through Albany (News)
Truckers Aren’t Following the Freight Route Bypassing Grand Avenue in Maspeth (QChron)
City Spending $4.3 Million on 14 Bus Pads for S79 Route (DNA)
Spend Your Summer Vacation Going to Streetcar Meetings in Brooklyn and Queens (DNA)
Got a Bike/Ped Project You Want New York State to Fund? This Is Your Chance. (MTR)
Public Spaces Help Us Mourn and Heal (TL, QChron)

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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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