Today’s Headlines
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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 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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