Today’s Headlines
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By
Ben Fried
8:56 AM EDT on September 19, 2017
- Dahlia Bus Crash That Killed 3 Was a Total Failure of Driver Safety Regulation (NYT, News, Post)
- Daily News: Companies Like Dahlia “Have No Business Doing Business Here”
- TransAlt: Vision Zero Fixes on Northern Boulevard and Elsewhere Falling Behind Schedule (News)
- Newsday Calls for Congestion Pricing to Relieve Traffic, Runs a Primer on How Other Cities Do It
- NYT: End the Regressive Status Quo of Car-Clogged City Streets
- Cuomo Got to Blame Crummy Subway Service on ConEd Again (DNA)
- Assembly’s Powerful Ways and Means Chair Bequeathed to Southern Brooklyn’s Helene Weinstein (SoP)
- Lower Level Boarding Returns to Staten Island Ferry for First Time in 13 Years (AMNY)
- Gene Freidman’s Old Taxi Medallions Went for Less Than 20% of Peak Value at Auction (Crain’s)
- The Post Remembers the Cataclysmic 1950 LIRR Train Wreck That Changed Transit in NYC
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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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