Today’s Headlines
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By
Brad Aaron
9:15 AM EST on January 13, 2010
- Pols Pledge to Step Up With $214M for Student MetroCards (News)
- Staten Island Express Buses Could Be on the Block (NY1)
- Second Ave Sagas: There’s a Method to Seeming Madness of MTA Service Cuts
- DMI’s John Petro: Road Pricing or Hobbled Transit System? It’s Up to Albany. (HuffPo)
- Paterson Budget Would Fold Empire State Development Corp. Into New Agency (Times Union)
- Race On for Council Spot as “Mr. Comptroller” Deputizes Simcha Felder (Gothamist, Bklyn Eagle)
- Senate Panel Recommends Expulsion or Censure of Convict Monserrate (NYT)
- Anthony Weiner Finds His Cause: Diplomats With Unpaid Parking Tickets (City Room)
- Cyclist Killed on Delancey Street Identified as 35-Year-Old Fuen Bai (DNAinfo via Gothamist)
- Pedestrian Critical After Collision in Hollis Hills; Driver Blames Sun; No Charges (NY1)
- FocusDriven, New Group Modeled on MADD, Takes on Distracted Driving (Bits, NY1)
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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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