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By Ben Fried

8:57 AM EST on February 19, 2018

Cuomo Counsel: State May Not Need City’s Permission to Implement Congestion Pricing (Politico)
Governor’s Camp Says Congestion Pricing Negotiations Still Ongoing in Albany (Crain’s, News)
Only the Latest Model of American Landboat Will Do for Assembly Honchos Heastie and Kolb (News)
Bhairavi Desai: It’s Time to Cap the Number of For-Hire Vehicles in NYC (News)
Felix Salmon Believes a Variable Uber Tax Is All That’s Needed to Cure NYC Congestion (Wired)
ConEd Will Pay $202 Million to Fix Up Subway Power Equipment (Bloomberg)
14th Street Busway NIMBY Fancies Himself Fighting the Lower Manhattan Expressway (Villager)
Class Action Suit Claims “Glitchy” MTA Cashless Tolls Wrongly Fining Drivers (Post)
QChron Worried That NYC Drivers Are Too Simple to Grasp Bus Lane Rules
City Islanders Press MTA for Better Bus Service (BxTimes)
One More Reason to Get Cops Out of Cars (Post)

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Ben Fried

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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