Today’s Headlines
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By
Ben Fried
8:38 AM EDT on August 28, 2017
- NJ Transit Overrun By Patronage, Corruption, and Incompetence, Says Fired Agency Watchdog (Politico)
- Queens Pols: In NYC, Only Transit Riders, Not Drivers, Should Pay for All Their Trips (News, AMNY)
- It’s Easier to Do Congestion Pricing With Cashless Tolling, Which Is the New Normal in NYC (NYT)
- Lewis Lehe Has the Authoritative Account of How Congestion Pricing Works in Other Cities
- Driver Critically Injures 6-Year-Old Boy on E 33rd Street; Police Blame Victim (DNA)
- 12 People Injured in Two Car Crashes in Queens Over the Weekend (Post)
- Drunk SUV Driver Plows Into Backhoe on the Bruckner, Injuring Passenger (News)
- One of America’s Top Dems Came Out to Mark the Installation of a Signalized Crossing in Flushing (TL)
- EDC: Riders Satisfied With EDC Ferry Service (NY1)
- Liam McCabe Campaigns for Mayor of Parkingtown (Eagle)
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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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