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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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