Today’s Headlines
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By
Ben Fried
8:58 AM EDT on August 23, 2016
- Sunset Park Residents to DOT: Get Moving on a Protected Bike Lane for 4th Avenue (Bklyn Paper)
- A Plea for DOT to Ignore Queens CB 1’s Nutty Ideas About the 31st Avenue Bike Route (TL)
- Mike Miller: City Hall “Discriminated Against” Woodhaven By Committing to Improve Bus Service (QNS)
- Power Loss at SBS Fare Machines in Jamaica Has Messed Up the Q44 Since June (DNA)
- Private Ambulance Driver Careens Onto Park Slope Sidewalk, Injuring One (News)
- The Times Looks to Toronto to Preview the Arrival of Open Gangway Trains on the Subway
- Won’t Someone Deign to Take the Job of Port Authority CEO? (Crain’s)
- When the Port Authority and the MTA Don’t Cooperate, Transit Riders Lose (Transport Politic)
- Here’s the Status on Upgrades to LIRR’s Vanderbilt Yard (AMNY)
- All of a Sudden, Staten Island Pols Want to Put an End to Illegal Parking (Advance)
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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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