Today’s Headlines
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By
Brad Aaron
9:08 AM EDT on April 7, 2010
- Thanks to Shell-Game Budgeting, Depth of State Fiscal Morass Impossible to Pinpoint (City Room)
- Assembly More Amenable to Supporting Gambling Than Transit (News)
- West Side 7 Extension Costs Heading Over Budget; Brodsky: Fuhgeddaboudit (News)
- Elderly Woman Hit by City Bus Driver at 57th and First Avenue (NY1)
- Bronx Man Walking His Bike Killed by Curb-Jumping SUV Driver (Bx News)
- New Bike Lanes Coming for Manhattan and Brooklyn Bridge Approaches (B’stoner, Post)
- Merchants Succeed in Cutting Williamsburg Walks to One Weekend; Bklyn Paper Readers Not Happy
- CBS 2’s Marcia Kramer Predictably Hysterical Over Ped Plazas; See NY1 for Reality-Based Report
- Public Meetings for High Bridge Restoration Planned Later This Month (Manhattan Times)
- London’s First Big Road Project in 100 Years Will Be Off-Limits to Private Cars (LES)
- Latest in Daily News Series Hints at Pricing Solution for Queens Parking “Crunch”
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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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