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8:59 AM EDT on June 5, 2013

    • DEP to Install 5,500 "Curbside Gardens" Bioswales to Handle Storm Runoff (WSJ)
    • In Wake of FreshDirect Ruling, South Bronx Residents Consider Options (City Limits)
    • Upset About Citi Sponsorship of Bike-Share? Daily News Goes Back to 1896, Shows It's Nothing New
    • Bike-Share Day Nine: More Than 30,500 Members and 13,000 Trips (Citi Bike)
    • Bike-Share Station Outages: The Post Is On It
    • Yglesias: Transportation Authoritarianism? Just Look at Auto-Centric Street Design (Slate)
    • Bike Peace NYC Responds to Rabinowitz: "NYC Has Been Positively Begrimed And It Looks Great"
    • Christie Shows No Regrets About Killing ARC Tunnel (WNYC)
    • BP Candidate/Congestion Pricing Foe Leroy Comrie: Queens Should Have Another Subway Line (News)
    • East Harlem Assembly Member Robert Rodriguez Busted for DWI in Albany (News)

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Stephen Miller
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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