Today’s Headlines
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8:53 AM EDT on October 23, 2014
- Turning Tractor-Trailer Truck Driver Kills Man Crossing Street in Glendale (News)
- Cuomo and Astorino Agree: Tappan Zee Drivers Shouldn’t Pay for Their New Bridge (WXXI)
- The Subway Set Multiple Ridership Records Last Month (News, Crain’s, Railway Age)
- De Blasio Quietly Appoints Medallion Owners’ Lawyer to Taxi Oversight Post (News, CapNY)
- New Top Cop at 107th Precinct in Queens Was Crash Victim, Wants to Focus on Vision Zero (News)
- RPA and MAS Say Madison Square Garden Should Move West to Open Up Penn Station (CapNY)
- Driver Runs Stop Sign and Hits MTA Bus, Sending It Onto Red Hook Sidewalk (News, WNBC, WPIX)
- Driver Critically Injures Pedestrian in Oakwood; “No Criminality” (Advance)
- State DOT Tells CB 1 It’ll Get Around to Fixing Battery Park City Bikeway Detour in 2016 (Tribeca Trib)
- Riders Say Platforms at Roosevelt Avenue Too Crowded; MTA Says CBTC Should Help (DNA)
- A Check-In From the Visioning Session for a Permanent Diversity Plaza (Jeffrey Tastes)
- This Is Why We Need Pedestrian Islands With Bollards (West Side Rag)
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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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