Today’s Headlines
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By
Ben Fried
8:59 AM EDT on July 31, 2017
- DOT’s Using a Cycling Safety Index to Prioritize Next Round of Bike Infrastructure (NYT)
- Turning Cab Driver Kills Woman, 80, in Upper East Side Side Crosswalk (Post)
- More Weekend Carnage: UES (Post); Rosedale (News, Post); Westchester Ave (News); Hamilton Hts (Post)
- Rumor Has It Cuomo and Christie Plan to Sack Port Authority Chair John Degnan (Politico, News)
- Lhota: More Overnight FasTrack Repairs Coming, Not Extensive Systemwide Shutdowns (Post, AMNY)
- Ross Barkan: Don’t Play Cuomo’s Game and Deflect Blame for Subway Mess Away From Him (Gothamist)
- Speaking of Which, Here’s Some Subway False Equivalence That’s as Tough on de Blasio as Cuomo (News)
- Rodriguez and Dinowitz Will Go on a Subway Listening Tour (News)
- What Will It Take for Dinowitz and Heastie to Provide Oversight of Cuomo’s MTA? (Reinvent Albany)
- De Blasio: Restaurants, Not Workers, Should Pay E-Bike Fines (WNYC, Post); But Why Are They Illegal? (Gothamist)
- Daily News Endorses Motivate’s Plan for Citi Bike Expansion
- People Might Get Killed Because of the Post‘s Coverage of Traffic Court
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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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