Today’s Headlines

8:57 AM EDT on March 10, 2014

Shelly Silver Will Remove Cuomo's $40 Million Transit Raid From Assembly Budget (News)
MTA Ridership Grew 3.6 Percent in 2013 (NYT)
De Blasio Nominates TLC Ex-Counsel Meera Joshi as Taxi Commissioner (News, NYT, CapNY)
Hit-and-Run Driver Kills Kumar Ragunath, 64, Crossing Northern Blvd (TL, NY1, NYT, DNA, WPIX)
Unidentified Man Killed by Driver Backing Out of Maspeth Driveway (TL)
Two Cabs Crash in LES, Injuring Passenger; One Driver Was Going 60 MPH (News, Lo-Down)
Golden and Malliotakis Launch Petition to Expand VNB Toll Giveaway (WNYC, WPIX)
Cuomo Funds New Bus Transit Service... to the Ski Slopes (News, Post, TU)
Bronx CB 2 and 41st Precinct Launch Joint Traffic Safety Task Force (Bronx Times)
Eric Adams in Caribbean Life: "Traffic Safety Reforms Must Be Fast-Tracked... We Need to Slow Down"
Tonight: Join TA for Workshop on How to Improve Jay Street in Downtown Brooklyn (News)
Have You Spotted the 10 Citi Bikes Decorated to Celebrate Armory Arts Week? (Velojoy)

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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