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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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Chris Dodd

Livable Communities Act Clears Senate Committee

Joan Mooney

U.S. Senate

Reid Energy Bill: No $ for Transit, Billions for Electric and Natural Gas Cars

John Burgess Everett

Tom Carper

Environmentalists, Transpo Reformers Brace for Scaled-Back Energy Bill

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

Climate Change

Senators Aim to Reintroduce Transportation Into Climate Bill Debate

Catherine Lutz

Car Culture

The Car Loan Loophole: How Auto Dealers Dodged Financial Reform

Chuck Schumer

Schumer, Labor Leaders Rally to Keep Buses and Trains Running

Dodd’s Livability Bill Earns Praise from Local Governments

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Federal Transit Aid Bill Could Prevent MTA Service Cuts

Elana Schor

Eight Senate Dems Offer $2B Plan for Emergency Transit Operating Aid

2009 Transportation Bill

Transit Industry and State DOTs Agree: Senate Climate Bill Needs ‘Rewrite’