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Today’s Headlines

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  • MTA Budget Recs, as Expected, Include Major Service Reductions, Avoid Fare Hikes (NYT, NY1)
  • TWU Wins Raises as Non-Union Employees Face Pay Cuts (NYT, News)
  • Paterson, Daily News Lament Albany’s Inability to Save Free Student Fares
  • Council Set to Override Parking “Grace Period” Veto, Extend Giveaways to Clergy (WNYC, News)
  • 33-Year-Old Cyclist Killed by Truck Driver in Greenpoint; No Charges (News, Post)
  • Elderly Pedestrian Dies After Sunset Park Hit-and-Run (News, Post, NY1)
  • 50-Car Collision in Shelton, CT Ruled Act of Nature (CT Post)
  • Cyclists Hold Memorial for Bedford Bike Lane; Bloomberg Heads to Copenhagen (News, Post, NY1)
  • Jim Dwyer: Bloomberg One of the “Worst Individual Polluters” Ever in Public Life
  • Tom Vanderbilt Considers the Past and Future of the American Drive-Thru (via Streetsblog.net)

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