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By
Ben Fried
8:56 AM EDT on May 29, 2018
- Will Simcha Felder and Senate Republicans Let NYC Save More Lives With Speed Cams? (NYT)
- Five Years and Counting for Citi Bike — What’s Next? (NY Mag) Who Rides the Most? (AMNY)
- Always Remember How Stupendously Wrong the Bike-Share NIMBYs Were (Gothamist)
- Jump CEO Envisions Scaling to 50,000 Bikes Outside Citi Bike Zone in Three to Five Years (Post)
- No Solid Timetable Yet for Replacing “Temporary” Security Barriers on West Side Greenway (AMNY)
- The Parks Department Wishes You a Happy Bike Month (West Side Rag)
- If Cuomo’s Not Serious About Fixing Transit, How Long Will Andy Byford Stick Around? (2AS)
- MTA Finally Adding Elevators and Rehabbing Decrepit Chambers Street Station (NY1)
- Yu Mein Chow, 56, Fifth Financially Strapped Cab Driver to Commit Suicide in Five Months (NYT)
- Memorial Day Weekend Motor Mayhem (Post, 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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