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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)

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Brad Aaron

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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