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8:58 AM EDT on August 1, 2014

    • State Authorities Budget Office Launches Investigation of Tappan Zee Clean Water Loan (CapNY)
    • Agatha Tsunis, 87, Killed by Driver Crossing Willets Point Boulevard (News, TL)
    • Driver Critically Injures 77 Year-Old Woman Crossing Street on Staten Island (Advance)
    • Chin: Affordable Housing Is More Important Than Parking, and Should Be Citywide (Our Town)
    • WNYC: More Than Half of Citi Bike's Early Sign-Ups Have Not Renewed Memberships
    • Advance Exclusive: Speeding Drivers in School Zones Are Getting Tickets From Speed Cams
    • "Merely Being Not-Terrible Is Not Enough": What the MTA Can Learn From Seoul (CapNY)
    • David Bragdon Has Some Ideas About How to Reinvent Transit in NYC (Urban Omnibus)
    • 78th Precinct's New Top Cop Promises to Keep Focus on Traffic Safety (Bklyn Paper)
    • A Trashcan Is Full and a Business Owner Is Grumpy, So Forum Deems Ozone Park Plaza a Failure
    • If Police Officers Do It, Then It's Not Illegal, Right? (Gothamist)
    • Blinkers for Bikes: Hand Signals Are an Under-Appreciated Part of Bike Safety (Velojoy)

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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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