Today’s Headlines
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By
Brad Aaron
8:59 AM EST on February 15, 2013
- More on Bloomberg’s Final State of the City: NYT, Post, WNYC
- The Times’ Car Blog and TransNat Detail the Mayor’s Electric Vehicle Parking Plan
- NY1-Marist Poll Shows Christine Quinn Still Not as Popular as Bike Lanes (CapNY)
- Touting Car Theft Numbers, DA Richard Brown Has Nothing to Say About Traffic Deaths (Gazette)
- Livery Cab Owners Sue to Stop Hail Apps (WSJ)
- CUNY and Memorial Sloan-Kettering Dangle Park Improvements for UES Parking (DNA)
- Rehab of 215th Step-Street in Inwood Delayed, Again (DNA)
- Schoolmate Honors Hit-and-Run Victim Ronald Tillman Through Cycling Advocacy (Wagner Mag)
- Streets Still Perilous After Hit-and-Run Deaths of Terence Connor and Mathieu Lefevre (Bushwick Daily)
- “Driving in Our City Is a Privilege, Not a Right.” — James Vacca, February 15, 2012
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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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