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Today’s Headlines

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By Brad Aaron

8:59 AM EDT on August 23, 2011

U.S. DOT Will Devote $745 Million to Amtrak and New York Rail Improvements (Transpo Nation, MTR)
If Mayor Bloomberg Had His Way, Red Light Cams Would Police Every Corner (Transpo Nation)
Andrea Bernstein: Port Authority Hikes a Model of Political Choreography
Crain’s Columnist Greg David Rips Govs, Manhattan Institute for PA Posturing (Crain’s, Post)
Times’s Joe Nocera: Tolls Benefit the Wealthy On the Backs of the Middle Class
NYPD Cruiser Hits Five-Year-Old Boy in Port Richmond (Post)
Pedestrian-Protecting Median Bollards Blamed for Cambria Heights Crashes (NY1)
Unwanted BoltBus Stop Moving to Chelsea (DNAinfo)
Poll Says Most New Yorkers Don’t Care About Bike Lanes (Gothamist)
WNYC Tracks Second Ave Subway Rubble to Construction Firms, City Golf Course
How Chris Quinn Uses Taxpayer Cash to Crush Council Dissent (NYT)

More headlines at Streetsblog Capitol Hill

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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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