Today’s Headlines
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By
Brad Aaron
9:19 AM EST on December 14, 2009
- 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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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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