Today’s Headlines
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9:00 AM EDT on October 29, 2012
- Bloomberg at NACTO: Pedestrians, Cyclists, Transit as Important as Drivers (CapNY, Post)
- Expect BusTime to Roll Out in the Bronx This Week (SAS)
- Increased Tax Collections Will Not Be Enough to Prevent MTA Fare Hike (Observer)
- De Blasio Takes in the City Through His Windshield (NYT)
- Hell’s Kitchen Neighbors Want to Reclaim Sidewalk From Illegal Restaurant Enclosures (Post)
- Turning MTA Express Bus Driver Crushes 84-Year-Old’s Foot on UES (News)
- Somehow, a Wrong-Way Car Crash by Alleged Robbers Fleeing Police Is Still an “Accident” (NY1)
- NYT: Barclays Brings More Yellow Cabs to Brooklyn; AYR: What About the Black Car Idling?
- Many Islanders Fans Will Probably Shift to Transit to Get to Barclays Center (NYT)
- Is This the Laziest Hit Job Against Bike “Lanes” From the Post Yet? (Post)
- Breaking: Joggers Run in Bike Lanes; It’s Annoying to Cyclists and Dangerous for All (Bklyn Paper)
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In spring 2017, Stephen wrote for Streetsblog USA, covering the livable streets movement and transportation policy developments around the nation.
From August 2012 to October 2015, he was a reporter for Streetsblog NYC, covering livable streets and transportation issues in the city and the region. After joining Streetsblog, he covered the tail end of the Bloomberg administration and the launch of Citi Bike. Since then, he covered mayoral elections, the de Blasio administration's ongoing Vision Zero campaign, and New York City's ever-evolving street safety and livable streets movements.
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