Today’s Headlines
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By
Brad Aaron
9:16 AM EST on January 27, 2010
- MTA Out of Money for Anti-Terror Measures on Subways and Buses (NYT, SAS)
- At a Cost of $66 Per Trip, Access-A-Ride Is an Expensive “Mess” (Fox 5)
- More Elmhurst Ped Summit: DOT Wants Motorists to Be Safe; NYPD Wants Them Happy (MTR)
- Sanitation Worker Killed by Truck Driver in Queens; No Charges (News, City Room, Post, NY1, WNYC)
- “Fed Up” Bay Ridge Organizes Against Dangerous Drivers (Post)
- NYPD Axes Journalism Students From Ride-Along Program (News)
- Bruce Ratner Nets Another $31M From City for Dean Street Properties (News)
- New Republic: Viable Transit Service Must Be Considered Part of Employment Equation
- Cyclists Find Peaceful Streets in the City That Sometimes Sleeps (City Room)
- Walking: Easy, Healthy, Politically Unpalatable (American Prospect)
- Tired of Gov’t Inaction, Climate Change Victims Look to Courts (NYT)
- Bob Noorda, Designer Behind Modernist Subway Signage, Dies at 82 (NYT)
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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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