Today’s Headlines
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By
Ben Fried
8:56 AM EDT on August 14, 2017
- Cuomo: Congestion Pricing an Idea “Whose Time Has Come” (NYT)
- NYPD Hands Truck Driver Who Killed Neftaly Ramirez a Get-Out-of-Jail-Free Card (Gothamist, News)
- MTA Bus Service Gets an F on Its Report Card; DOT’s Efforts Don’t Score Much Higher (News)
- Did Cuomo’s Subway Track Tour Delay Riders? (NBC)
- Meet Cuomo’s Pick to Lead Port Authority, Rick Cotton, Who Starts Work Today (NYT)
- Gov Spends More on Low-Impact Economic Development Schemes Than the NYC Transit System (Post)
- More Coverage of Spin’s Scuffle With DOT (Crain’s, DNA)
- De Blasio Wants E-Bike Laws to Target Businesses, Not Workers, But Why Are They Illegal? (Post)
- EDC Planning to Add Ferry Docks in South Bronx, Upper East Side, Lower East Side (DNA)
- Amtrak’s Penn Station Track Work “a Little Ahead of Schedule” (AMNY)
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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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