Today’s Headlines
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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 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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