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It’s Official — NYC Budget Includes Half-Price MetroCards for Poor New Yorkers (NYT, AMNY) How Does Andy Byford Plan to Speed Up the Resignaling of the Subway? (NYT) If Albany Doesn’t Act on Speed Cams, They’re Putting Older New Yorkers at Risk (Eagle) These Are the NYC Streets With the Worst Speeding Problem, According to … Continued

By Ben Fried

8:52 AM EDT on June 12, 2018

It’s Official — NYC Budget Includes Half-Price MetroCards for Poor New Yorkers (NYT, AMNY)
How Does Andy Byford Plan to Speed Up the Resignaling of the Subway? (NYT)
If Albany Doesn’t Act on Speed Cams, They’re Putting Older New Yorkers at Risk (Eagle)
These Are the NYC Streets With the Worst Speeding Problem, According to Dash (Post)
Daily News: Time’s Up for Private Trash Haulers Dodging Safety Rules With Their Fake Unions
Manhattan DMV Employees Caught Taking Bribes to Fix Tickets (News)
Today’s City Council Agenda Includes Placard Oversight Bills (Bowery Boogie)
Bklyner Has the Plans for Safer Intersections in the North Brooklyn Transportation Study
MTA Rehabbing Staten Island Railway’s 150-Year-Old Richmond Valley Station (Advance)
A Tale of Two City Employees Who Drive to the Gym (News, Post)

Ben Fried

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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