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By
Ben Fried
8:52 AM EDT on August 22, 2018
- Forget Michael Cohen, This Is a Story — City Council Wants to Legalize E-Scooter Fleets (News)
- Rafael Espinal and Ydanis Rodriguez Make the Case for Scooters (News)
- De Blasio on L Train Shutdown: Trust Me, I Got This. Remind Me, When Does It Start? (News, Post)
- CityLab Finds the Silver Lining in the L Train Crisis
- Tough Crowd at Andy Byford’s First “Fast Forward” Town Hall (AMNY)
- MTA Tweaks Staten Island Express Bus Overhaul During First Week of Service (Advance)
- TransitCenter: A Broken Down Electric Bus Isn’t Cutting Any Carbon Emissions
- WTF — Cops Brandishing Stun Guns Broke Up a Weekend Block Party Near Yankee Stadium (News)
- 120 People Rode the Fifth Annual “Bike East” Between East New York and Jamaica Bay (Bklyn Paper)
- Not All Road Ragers Drive Cars (Gothamist)
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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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