Today’s Headlines

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)

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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