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 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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