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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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