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By
Brad Aaron
8:53 AM EDT on May 29, 2014
- City Council to Vote on Slate of Traffic Safety Bills Today (Post, WNYC)
- Espaillat and Levine Call for Extending 125th Street Select Bus Service to West Harlem (News)
- Make Queens Safer Says NYPD’s Geocoded Crash Data Undercounts Injuries and Fatalities
- Ben Kallos Bill Would Require NYPD to Map Traffic Summonses (AMNY)
- No Charges for Parks Department Driver Who Ran Over Child, and No Explanation for Crash (DNA)
- Teen Who Killed Ariel Russo Bragged About Speeding, Manhattan Prosecutors Tell Judge (NYT, News)
- Brooklyn CB 15 Rejects Half-Baked NYS DOT Ocean Parkway Safety Proposal (Sheepshead Bites)
- Con Ed and Parks Department Duck Responsibility for Incomplete East River Esplanade Work (DNA)
- Brooklyn Homicide Detective Arrested for Driving Drunk (News)
- City Has Allowed Trucking Company to Operate on College Point Residential Block for 24 Years (TL)
- Sam Schwartz Pitches Toll Reform to Downtown Express Readers
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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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