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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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Federal Transportation Bill

Americans Can’t Afford a Highway-Centric Transportation Bill

Ben Goldman

Encouraging News on Transit, But Serious Flaws Remain in House Transpo Bill

GOP Will “Revamp” H.R. 7 and Reportedly Restore Dedicated Transit Funding

House of Representatives

House Bill Delayed, But Transit, Biking, and Walking Aren’t Safe Yet

Angie is a Cleveland-based writer with a background in planning and newspaper reporting. She has been writing about cities for Streetsblog for six years.

Angie Schmitt

Flashback: Ronald Reagan Touts Gas Tax Hike, Transit Funding as Job Creators

Earl Blumenauer

Blumenauer: Don’t Let American Streets Remain Unsafe Routes to School

House Speaker John Boehner Will Delay Vote on House Transpo Bill

Barack Obama

Obama Takes a Stand, Threatens to Veto House Transpo Bill

House Transpo Bill Doesn’t Have the Votes, So Republicans Split It in Three

Noah joined Streetsblog as a New York City reporter at the start of 2010. When he was a kid, he collected subway paraphernalia in a Vignelli-map shoebox.
Before coming to Streetsblog, he blogged at TheCityFix DC and worked as a field organizer for the Obama campaign in Toledo, Ohio. Noah graduated from Yale University, where he wrote his senior thesis on the class politics of transportation reform in New York City. He lives in Morningside Heights.

Noah Kazis

79 New York City Execs Tell House to Kill Anti-Transit Bill