Today’s Headlines
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By
Brad Aaron
9:17 AM EDT on May 5, 2011
- Public Plazas: Beloved Urban Oases or End of Civilization? (CBS2, NY1, Post, News)
- Taxi Drivers’ Proposed Fare Hike Would Include Rush Hour Surcharge (News, WNYC)
- WNYC Examines the Economics of Self-Regulating Livery Cabs
- Bronx Prosecutor With Disappeared DWI Still Assigned to Ticket Fixing Cases (News)
- Chris Simms Acquitted on Drugged Driving Charge; Post’s Laura Italiano Can Barely Contain Herself
- Owner Wants to Put Towers on Top of Chelsea Market; Neighbors: No (DNAinfo, NYT)
- Report Says Staten Island Losing Its Young Over Housing Prices, Traffic Congestion (NY1)
- Fitzgerald’s West Egg to Have Its Own Ring of Steel (NYT)
- Obama Hosts Wounded Veterans Recovering By Bike (Transpo Nation)
- Congress Way Better at Slashing Transit Funds Than Lowering Gas Prices (MTR)
More headlines at Streetsblog Capitol Hill
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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