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By
Ben Fried
8:53 AM EDT on August 21, 2017
- NYT: Cuomo Should Base His Congestion Pricing Plan on Move NY
- So Far the Plan Is Just a Trial Balloon Cuomo Floated to the Times (Crain’s)
- Signal Upgrades on the 7 Delayed Until 2018. Will the MTA Pick Up the Pace? (NYT)
- Cuomo Plans a Low-Key Opening for His Big, Subsidized Highway Sprawl Bridge (D&C)
- De Blasio Asks City Council to Back Him Up on an MTA Millionaires Tax (Politico)
- Daneek Miller Dusts Off His Anti-Congestion Pricing Talking Points (Queens Press)
- Hit-and-Run Driver Critically Injures Cyclist Lorenzo Anderson, 59, in Astoria (News)
- Cab Driver Crashes Into Flatbed Truck on Cross Bronx Expressway and Dies (Post)
- Driver Fleeing Traffic Stop Drags Cop 200 Feet (News)
- Speeding Motorists Menace 72nd Ave in Forest Hills (QChron)
- If You Ride the Bus, WNYC Wants to Hear From You
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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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