Today’s Headlines
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By
Ben Fried
8:55 AM EDT on March 14, 2017
- Cuomo Scales Back Transit Service for the Storm (Post, AMNY, NY1)
- How the MTA Handles a Big Snowfall (AMNY)
- NYPD Charges Tow Truck Driver With Failure to Yield for Killing Ping Xie, 81, in Flushing (Gothamist, TL)
- Two Injured in Four-Car Pileup in Dongan Hills (Advance)
- No Speed Camera Technicality Too Small to Escape Attention of the Advance
- Construction Industry Wants Cuomo to Restore $65 Million for Transit in Final Budget (Crain’s)
- New Plaza Coming Below the Brooklyn Bridge, If It Survives the Local Complaint Brigade (Bklyn Paper)
- Why Is the GWB Bus Terminal Renovation Two Years Behind Schedule? (NYT)
- MTA Adds a Morning Bus Run to the X12 (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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