Today’s Headlines
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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 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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