Today’s Headlines
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By
Brad Aaron
8:54 AM EDT on August 6, 2014
- Daily News Doubts That Slower Speed Limits Will Save Lives
- Cuomo Won’t Say If Bank Settlement Billions Will Be Used for Tappan Zee (CapNY)
- Driver Charged With DWAI in Times Square Double-Decker Collision; 15 Injured (ABC, NYT)
- De Blasio and Bratton Demur on NYPD Body Cameras (CapNY)
- Family Collects Evidence After NYPD Fails to Investigate Intentional Queens Hit-and-Run (Gothamist)
- A 13th Precinct Patrol Car Was Parked in the Second Avenue Bike Lane for Days (@FedExLane)
- Unlicensed Driver Kills 62-Year-Old Pedestrian on Belt Parkway (News)
- New York State DOT Keeps Its NACTO Guide on the Shelf and LI Cyclists in the Margins (TSTC)
- Ydanis Rodriguez: Upper Manhattan Sidewalks Lousy With Illegal Clothing Drop-Off Bins (DNA)
- Hamptons Moguls Clamor to Associate Themselves With Motorist Litter (Post)
- All That’s Missing From the Moreland Commission Story Is a Big Traffic Jam (CapTon)
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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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