Today’s Headlines
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By
Ben Fried
8:53 AM EDT on March 26, 2018
- Stringer: Subway Service Isn’t Keeping Up With the Surge in Off-Peak Trips (NYT, Crain’s)
- 35 Council Members Urge Corey Johnson to Support Fair Fares in This Year’s Budget (News)
- City Hall: Cuomo’s Brute Force Value Capture Plan Would Swipe Nearly $10B/Year From NYC (News, Post)
- As Cuomo Settles on For-Hire Vehicle Fee, Black Car Industry Fights for Full Congestion Pricing (Politico)
- Daily News Raises Pressure on Heastie, Glick, and Other NYC Reps to Back Congestion Pricing
- Women’s Ride Highlights NYC’s Cycling Gender Divide, Calls for Safer Streets (AMNY)
- DOT: Transit Signal Priority on Woodhaven Boulevard Coming … … … in Late 2019 (QChron)
- DOT Had to Replace 2,500 Plastic Bollards Mauled By Motorists Last Year (Post)
- Drunk Driver Careens Down Woodhaven Boulevard Sidewalk, Injuring Three (News)
- Damned E-Bikes (News)
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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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