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8:58 AM EDT on September 27, 2012

    • Read All the Way to the End of This Times Piece for the Real Story on NYC's Traffic Death Spike ...
    • ... Or Just Read the Brooklyn Spoke Edit
    • Gothamist Wonders If Next Mayor Will Twist Fatality Uptick to Roll Back Safe Street Improvements
    • NYPD Still Withholding Crime Data, and Chris Quinn Has Nothing to Say (City Limits)
    • Traffic Signal Priority Coming to First and Second Avenue Select Bus Service (TransNat)
    • MTA to Begin Construction of Staten Island Railway "Superstation" in 2013 (Advance)
    • Transportation Nation Hits the Streets With DOT Commercial Cycling Inspectors
    • Another Cafe, Little Zelda on Franklin Ave in Crown Heights, Partners With DOT for Bike Corral (DNA)
    • Dangerous Streets a Major Obstacle to Restored Bronx River Waterfront (DNA)
    • Advance Pleads With Staten Island Motorists Not to Run Over School Children
    • Sickening: Bay Ridge Curb Hogs Demand Concessions for Plan to Keep Kids Out of Traffic (Bklyn Paper)
    • Joe Lentol Calls for Speed Cameras and Other Life-Saving Measures (CapNY)
    • City Awards Contract for Upper East Side Waste Transfer Station (DNA)
    • Norman Oder Dissects Times Profile of Bruce Ratner (AYR)

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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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