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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

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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