Today’s Headlines
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By
Ben Fried
8:45 AM EDT on July 31, 2018
- NYT: Let’s Cut Down on All Cars, Not Just Uber, on Crowded NYC Streets; Daily News: Same
- NYPD Refuses to Release Legally Mandated Racial Breakdown of Fare Evasion Arrests (AMNY)
- Hit-and-Run Driver Critically Injures Woman in Simcha Felder‘s District (CBS2)
- How Routine Maintenance on the D/N/R Turned Into a Massive MTA Own Goal (Voice, News, AMNY)
- Communication Breakdowns Are Nothing New for the MTA (Curbed)
- Don’t Get Snowed By the Uber PR Juggernaut (Gothamist, News, AMNY)
- Two Thumbs Up for MTA’s New Access-a-Ride App, But Will It Scale? (NY1)
- Gjonaj: Put Speed Measurement Signs Where Cameras Have Been Shut Off (Post)
- Shared Electric Moped Fleets: Legal; Most Delivery E-Bikes: Still Illegal (Gothamist, News, Post, AMNY)
- When He’s Not Running StreetsPAC, Eric McClure Is Looking Out for Bike Theft Victims (Bklyn Paper)
- Actually, “Verrazano” Is Spelled With Only One Z (Bklyn Paper)
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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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