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By Ben Fried

8:54 AM EDT on August 4, 2017

Is the Brooklyn-Queens Streetcar Dead or Just Hibernating? (Voice)
Better Scheduling Could Go a Long Way to Improve Subway Reliability (CityLab)
After Subway Listening Tour, Will Pols Hold Cuomo’s MTA Accountable? (News, WNYC, MTR)
The Daily News Serves Up Another Subway Opinion That Could Have Come From Cuomo’s Press Shop
Richard Ravitch: Today’s NYC Business Leaders Don’t Value Transit Like They Should (Bond Buyer)
Metro-North Will Keep Hourly Frequency at Two Bronx Stations — Not Good Enough (Prog RR)
NYT: MTA Has to Do Better for Disabled Riders
Hit-and-Run Driver Critically Injures Man in East New York (News)
Can’t Say It Enough — Helmet Laws Don’t Make Cycling Safer (Gothamist)
The Queens Boulevard Bike Lane Has Arrived in Rego Park (QChron)
Andrew Cuomo Got National Republicans to Pay Attention to Transit (News)

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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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