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By
Ben Fried
8:48 AM EDT on September 18, 2017
- Vanterpool: A Progressive Mayor Would Make Congestion Pricing a Priority (News)
- After Another Serious Midtown Bike Crash, DOT Says Better Crosstown Lanes Are Coming (DNA)
- Malliotakis Volunteers to Hand Over NYC’s Rainy Day Funds to Cuomo’s MTA (AMNY)
- Power Failure Caused Chaos on Five Subway Lines Sunday Afternoon (NYT, Post, NY1)
- MTA Bus and Charter Bus Collide in Flushing — One Dead, Eight Severely Injured (News, AMNY)
- SUV Driver Strikes Man on Citi Bike at 31st Street and Third Ave (Gothamist)
- NYPD Arrested at Least 10 People for Riding Bikes in a Large Group Yesterday (Post)
- Bike Racks Coming to MTA Buses That Cross Between the Bronx and Queens (AMNY)
- QChron Surveys the State of Placard Abuse Outside Queens Borough Hall
- Upcoming 2-Year Manhattan Bridge Rehab Will Take Out a Car Lane, Narrow Ped Path (DNA)
- UN General Assembly in Town This Week — East Side Bike Network Will Be a Mess (Bike Snob)
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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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