Today’s Headlines
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By
Brad Aaron
8:59 AM EDT on August 19, 2011
- Port Authority Scales Back Toll Hike; Cuomo, Christie to Cut Capital Plan (City Room, News, NY1, Crain’s)
- Alongside Requisite Doomsaying, Post Takes a Breath to Acknowledge That Infrastructure Isn’t Free
- Toll-Cheating Deadbeats Bilk Authority for Millions Every Year (NYT)
- With $1M Parking Ticket Tab, NYPD Pulling Its Own Cars Off the Streets (DNAinfo)
- Cyclist Jeffrey Axelrod Killed by Truck on Delancey Street; No Criminality Suspected (DNAinfo, News)
- Collision on Upper East Side Hospitalizes Four, Pins Man Between Parked Cars (DNAinfo)
- Upper West Side Squatter Is the Poster Boy for Parking Rate Reform (Post)
- 700,000 American Households Have No Car, No Transit Access (Transpo Nation)
- Throwaway Line From the New Yorker’s Paul Goldberger: Cars Don’t Belong in Central Park
- Don’t Tell Cuozzo About the Times Square Meeting Bowls (Gothamist)
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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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