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By
Ben Fried
8:58 AM EDT on September 30, 2016
- Hoboken Train Crash — 1 Dead, 108 Injured (NYT, AP, NY1, News, Post, WNYC, Politico)
- Under Christie, NJ Transit Is “an Agency in Distress” (NYT)
- Would Positive Train Control Have Prevented the Crash? (WSJ, Post)
- NJ Transit Service Will Be Disrupted for Weeks (News)
- New Bill From Glick and Peralta Would Suspend Licenses of Repeat School Zone Speeders (DNA)
- The Fair Fares Campaign Finds a Receptive Audience at Hunter College (DNA)
- Gridlock Sam Talks Driverless Cars With the Brooklyn Paper
- MTA: W Train Service Will Return to Astoria November 7 (TL)
- People in the 112th Precinct Want a Plan to Stop Honking and Double-Parking (QChron)
- 9 Ideas From Around the World for Better Streets and Transit (AMNY)
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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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