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Happy holidays, Streetsblog NYC readers. We'll have a batch of Streetsie polls to vote on later this morning, then we'll be back on Tuesday with our year-in-review posts.

By Ben Fried

8:53 AM EST on December 23, 2016

Tony Avella: “Buying a Car, Having a Car, Is the Last Bastion of Freedom” (Gothamist)
Sorry Tony, Car Makers Are Looking Beyond Car Ownership to “Mobility Services” (NYT)
Welcome to the 12 Days of Cuomo Gloating About the 2nd Ave Subway (Politico, AMNY, DNA, NY1)
Let Ben Kabak Take You on a Tour of the 96th Street Station (2nd Ave Sagas)
New Jersey Sees Cuomo’s Port Authority Power Grab as “Blackmail” (NJ.com)
The Uber/Lyft Bill Is Part of an Especially Grotesque Round of Albany Sausage-Making (News)
Uber Might Not Be Long for This World Unless It Becomes a Quasi-Monopoly (NYT)
These Council Members Don’t Sound That Excited About the BQX Streetcar (NY1)
What Happened to the 350 Real-Time Bus Arrival Displays de Blasio Promised for 2016? (Politico)
The Elusive Quest for Free-Flowing Traffic on Victory Boulevard (Advance)
Tri-State Reviews the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly of 2016

Happy holidays, Streetsblog NYC readers. We’ll have a batch of Streetsie polls to vote on later this morning, then we’ll be back on Tuesday with our year-in-review posts.

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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