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By
Ben Fried
8:56 AM EST on March 7, 2017
- Unreliable Transit + Cheap Ride-Hail Trips = More Gridlock (NYT)
- Cuomo’s Nuclear Bailout Will Cost the MTA $11 Million Annually (News)
- De Blasio Doesn’t Want to Deal With Police Reform During Election Season (Post)
- Turning Bus Driver Injures Woman Crossing Houston Street (News, DNA)
- Drunk Driver on Trial for 2014 Trail of Destruction That Killed Bus Driver William Pena (Post)
- Meet the Murray Hill NIMBYs Who Are OK With People Maybe Dying of Smoke Inhalation on the Lex (DNA)
- Rockaway Car Owners Get High-Speed Tolls; Rockaway Bus Riders Wait for High-Speed Fares (QChron)
- Coming Soon to Jackson Ave in LIC: A New Place to Rest Your Feet (DNA)
- Millions Watch Christoph Niemann’s Brilliant Visualization of Biking on Hectic NYC Streets (Post)
- Damned Bike Lanes (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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