Today’s Headlines
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By
Ben Fried
8:53 AM EDT on October 9, 2017
- Amtrak Put Off Critical Track Repairs to Let Work on Moynihan Station, East Side Access Proceed (NYT)
- Daily News: It’s Time for NYC to Put William Vickrey’s Congestion Pricing Ideas Into Practice
- The Thing About Congestion Pricing Is That People Like It a Lot More After They See It Work (AMNY)
- Hit-and-Run Driver Kills Hilda Arocho, 82, Just Outside Her Home in Wakefield (AMNY)
- Nancy Pease, 55, Died 12 Days After a Drunk Driver Struck Her During the TA Century (News)
- Van Driver Who Crashed Into Bus on Staten Island Succumbs to Injuries (News)
- Motorcyclist Critically Injures Pedestrian in East New York (News, Post)
- SUV Driver Hits Father and Two Kids Walking to PS 9 in Prospect Heights (DNA)
- Report: NYC Still Has a Long Way to Go to Make Its Sidewalks Accessible (NYT)
- Woodhaven Blvd SBS NIMBYs Can’t Wait to Deem Bus Lanes and Ped Medians a Failure (QChron)
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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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