Today’s Headlines

8:59 AM EST on November 5, 2013

It's Election Day: Know Your Ballot Measures and Transpo Issues (NYT, DNA, NY1)
Doomsayers Were Wrong: No Citi Bike Fatalities After Millions of Rides (NYT)
Two Men Seriously Injured After UPS Truck Driver Smashes Into Cherry Picker on UWS (Post)
Bloomberg's Taxi Reforms Face Uncertain Future in Next Administration (CapNY)
Lhota Fields Calls From People Scared of Bicycles, Says He'll "Look Into" Trike-Share (Observer)
Gibson Dunn's Randy Mastro Has Ties to de Blasio, Lhota, and Bill Thompson (CapNY)
Bike-Share: It's Really Popular (Post)
Why Does London Have Half as Many Traffic Deaths as NYC? (IVM)
MTA Releases New Photos of Second Avenue Subway Construction (Post, News)
Jersey City's Mayor Making Good on Promise to Install New Bike Lanes (BIKAS)
Brooke Shields Dressed as a Citi Bike for Halloween (Daily Mail via Inhabitat)

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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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