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8:56 AM EDT on October 19, 2015

    • Bill Hammond: If Cuomo Has a Better Way to Fund the MTA Than Move NY, He's Not Telling (Politico)
    • Proposed Brooklyn Bike-Share Stations Are Few and Far Between (Brooklyn Paper, DNA)
    • Unlicensed Driver Critically Injures Senior on SI; NYPD: Victim "Outside the Crosswalk" (Advance, News)
    • Elizabeth Crowley Wants Light Rail Between Glendale and LIC ... With Park-and-Ride Lots (Politico)
    • Legislation From Jumaane Williams Aims to Legitimize and Reform Dollar Vans (Post)
    • Some Green Cab Drivers Don't Want to Deal With Lower Manhattan Congestion (Post)
    • Post Says de Blasio Ordered NYPD to Issue Fewer Tickets to Hasidic Drivers
    • South Bronx Residents Reimagine a Park, But Bruckner Expressway Still Looms (NYT)
    • Times Writer Doesn't Like the LED Street Lights DOT Chose, Urges City Council to Intervene
    • Check Out the Manhattan Street Grid in 1811, Before Bikes Ruined It (Post)

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Brad Aaron
Brad Aaron began writing for Streetsblog in 2007, after years as a reporter, editor, and publisher in the alternative weekly business. Brad adopted New York'’s dysfunctional traffic justice system as his primary beat for Streetsblog. He lives in Manhattan.

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