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8:52 AM EST on January 30, 2018

    • TSTC: Congestion Pricing Makes Sense for Each District in MTA Region (AMNY, NYT, WSJ, News 1, 2)
    • Andy Byford, a Transit Prez We Can Believe In (WSJ)
    • It's Up to Aecom Exec Kevin Corbett to Clean Up Christie's Mess at NJ Transit (NYT)
    • The Hypocrisy of de Blasio's Windshield Bias (C&S)
    • One Month After NYT Transit Cost Exposé, Still No Action From Cuomo or MTA (TransitCenter)
    • Postal Workers Still Park Trucks All Over the Willy-B Bike Connection Under the BQE (Bklyn Paper)
    • Nicole Gelinas Worries Trump Will Cut NYC Off From Federal Infrastructure Funds (Post)
    • Retiring Rodney Frelinghuysen Is a Rare House Republican Telling Trump to Fund Gateway (Bloomberg)
    • DOT May Turn Several Two-Way Streets in Maspeth Into One-Ways (QChron)
    • Damned E-Bikes (Post)

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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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