Today’s Headlines
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8:59 AM EST on December 9, 2013
- NBBL Still Trying to Drum Up Bad Press for PPW Bike Lane (Bklyn Paper)
- MNR Upgrades Safety Controls on Bridges and Curves (NYT, WSJ) as Cuomo Talks Transit (CapNY)
- Yunior Antonio Perez Rodriguez, 35, Killed by Hit-and-Run Driver in Woodhaven (TL, DNA, WABC, NY1)
- Gloria Mabry, 74, Killed by Turning MTA Bus Driver in Co-Op City (News 12, News, WCBS, Post)
- Funeral Held for Kalyanarat Ranasinghe, 71, NYPD Traffic Agent Killed in Midtown (DNA, Post, News)
- Some Bicyclists on the UWS Are Riding the Wrong Way, and the Post Is On It
- When It Snows, Citi Bike Will Move Bikes to Sidewalk and Plaza Stations First, Then Shovel Out (DNA)
- NYPD’s New Crime Map: No More, No Less, Than What Council Required (DNA, News, Gothamist)
- Recycling, Instead of Banning, Styrofoam? That’s 1,000 New Trucks on the Street (NYT)
- News Interviews Anti-Bike Crank to Represent “Critics” of Atlantic Avenue Bike-Friendly Biz District
- Invisible Visible Man Looks at the Failure of “Share the Road” and Victim-Blaming Education Campaigns
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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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