Today’s Headlines
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By
Ben Fried
8:49 AM EDT on June 4, 2018
- Lyft in Talks to Acquire Citi Bike Operator Motivate (Bloomberg)
- Investigation of Sanitation Salvage Reveals a Lawless Company Where Life Is Cheap (ProPublica)
- Strong Words From the Daily News Endorsing Congestion Pricing to Pay for Byford’s Transit Plan
- NYT: Most Important Part of Byford Plan Is Reforming MTA Project Management
- Two–Parter on Subway Delays Making New Yorkers Late for Work (Post)
- De Blasio Won’t Talk About Fair Fares, So Riders Alliance Invented a Mayor Who Will (AMNY)
- Ah, the Mind-Bending Inscrutability of MTA Service Change Posters (News)
- DOT Showed Its 9th Street Design Concept to the Park Slope Street Safety Partnership (Bklyner)
- Drunk Mercedes Driver Injures Four People in Two Collisions (News)
- How Should You Deal With the Stress of Biking on NYC’s Car-Centric Streets? (Gothamist)
- Cuozzo: Signals? The J Train Don’t Need No Stinkin’ Modern Signals (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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