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By Ben Fried

8:40 AM EDT on July 30, 2018

City Council Seems Determined to “Pause” Uber/Lyft Growth (Politico, Crain’s, NYT, AMNY)
Schaller: Cap Uber Where It Counts — on Congested Manhattan Streets (News)
Civil Rights Orgs Defend Uber as Antidote to Yellow Cab Discrimination (NYT, Crain’s)
Don’t Let the Post Headline Fool You — Flanagan Still Refuses to Allow Vote on Speed Cam Bill
Harry Siegel Unleashes on “Moral Cretins” Who Let NYC Speed Cams Expire (News)
Shelly Silver’s Sentencing Leaves Him Speechless (Politico)
DOE Ramps Up Bike Lessons at City Schools (News)
Maybe You Will Live to See the Completion of East Side Access (TL)
A Public Pool vs. the Wyckoff Gardens Parking Lot (Bklyn Paper)
NYPD Assigning More Cops to the Subway (NY1, AMNY)
People You Share the Road With (Bklyn Paper, News, Post)

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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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