Today’s Headlines
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By
Ben Fried
8:58 AM EST on February 28, 2018
- NYPD Sergeant Perfectly Acts Out the Ethos of Placard Culture (Post)
- Our Placard-Issuing, Big Oil-Suing Mayor Won’t Stop His Daily SUV Expedition to Park Slope (News)
- If DOT’s 14th St Busway Plan Beats Weaker Plans, Why Didn’t DOT Study a Stronger Busway? (Voice)
- Port Authority Looking Ahead to the Next Trans-Hudson Transit Tunnel After Gateway (NYT, AMNY)
- MTA Sending Office Workers Out to Assist Subway Passengers During System Failures (News)
- The Times Managed to Mangle an Op-Ed in Favor of Congestion Pricing
- Five Electeds Call on City Hall to Make Walking Safer at Gas Station By Sunset Park School (Bklyn Paper)
- Turning Semi-Truck Driver Hits Woman, Kills Her Dog in West Side Crosswalk (Post)
- The Real Joke Is That Joe Lhota Only Works Part-Time at the MTA IRL (AMNY)
- Make It Stop (Bklyn Paper)
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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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