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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

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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