Today’s Headlines
More headlines at Streetsblog Capitol Hill
By
Brad Aaron
8:54 AM EDT on October 11, 2012
- Citizens Budget Commission’s MTA Plan: Higher Fares, Tolls and Gas Taxes, and Road Pricing (CapNY)
- Related: Advance Hits the Thesaurus for “Outrage” Synonyms
- At Stop-Frisk Hearing, Bloomberg Attorney Says City Council Has No Authority Over NYPD (NYT, DNA)
- CB 2 Member Dismisses Residents’ Fears of Speeding Traffic, Trucks on Skillman Avenue (Q Gazette)
- Queens’ 104th Precinct Reinstitutes Community Council After Its Director Was Arrested (QChron)
- Prosecutors: Ex-NYPD Pedestrian Killer Kevin Spellman Had History of Driving Drunk (R’dale Press)
- EPL: Congestion Pricing Critic Jeffrey Dinowitz Is NYC’s Top Assembly Environmentalist (R’dale Press)
- Cap’n Transit Explains the Limits of Mondermanism
- The Nostalgia Train Was On Duty in the South Bronx Yesterday … (TransNat, SAS)
- … And Nine Percent of the Capital Bikeshare Fleet Was Docked at Nationals Stadium (TransNat)
More headlines at Streetsblog Capitol Hill
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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