Today’s Headlines
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By
Ben Fried
8:56 AM EST on January 9, 2017
- Cuomo Expected to Release Statewide Uber/Lyft Bill Today (D&C)
- Nicole Gelinas: NYC Can Come Up With A Better Way to Get Uber Trip Data (Post)
- RPA: Despite Enormous Cost, Cuomo Should Build a Midtown-JFK Rail Link (Politico)
- One Drunk Driving Trip in the Bronx Ruined So Many Lives (News)
- Icy Sidewalks Can Be Deadly — Elderly Man Slips and Dies on Upper East Side (Post)
- Private Trash Haulers Prepare to Fight De Blasio Plan to Cut Garbage Truck Traffic (Crain’s)
- If the 7 Train Is the Best Line in the City, the Subway System Is in Trouble (QChron)
- David Jones and Carol Kellerman Make the Case for Discount MetroCards in Crain’s
- Buses on 23rd Street Will Get Faster and More Reliable Starting Today (DNA)
- The Lights Are Back on at NYC’s First Solar-Powered Bus Shelter (DNA)
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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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