Today’s Headlines
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By
Ben Fried
8:56 AM EST on February 7, 2017
- Andrew Cuomo Is Living His Dream of Building a Useless AirTrain Link to LGA (AMNY)
- Instead of Airport Transit, How About Investing Port Authority Funds in Freight Rail (MTR)
- City Hall Makes Its Case for Mega-Development Over Sunnyside Yard (Crain’s, TL, Politico, News, DNA)
- State Senate Passes Statewide Uber Bill (WSJ)
- Brooklyn CB 6: Cut Truck Traffic By Bringing Back Two-Way Tolling on the Verrazano (Bklyn Paper)
- TA Calls Out Richard Brown for Letting Driver Who Killed Navraj Raju Off the Hook (TL)
- Not Even a Ticket for Turning Driver Who Critically Injured Woman Crossing Street in Rossville (Advance)
- How Unreliable Is Bus Service in the Bronx? (CityLimits)
- If You Believe the Post, Taxis on NYC Streets Are in Worse Shape Than They Used to Be
- 350 Apartments Will Replace NYPD Parking Lot in Jamaica (TL)
- Uber’s Next Big Plan to Set Money on Fire (Post)
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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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