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8:56 AM EST on January 16, 2015

    • Port Authority Reform Bills Could Get Override Votes in Both State Legislatures (State of Politics)
    • Trottenberg Names Jeff Lynch Queens Boro Commissioner, Reassigning Dalila Hall (TL)
    • Traffic Deaths Were Falling Before Vision Zero, So Advance Columnist Says It's a Scam
    • Teen Passenger Killed in Two-Car Crash in Far Rockaway (Post, WNBC)
    • Video: TA Executive Director Paul Steely White Talks Vision Zero With C&S
    • DOT Adds On-Street Parking to Tribeca Streets (DNA)
    • Kallos Wants Archived Bus Time Data So Public Can Crunch Bus Reliability Stats (Gotham Gazette)
    • Gantt Reintroduces Bill to Study Driverless Cars (Capital)
    • State Could Merge Thruway With Authority Managing Upstate Hudson River Bridges (Capital)
    • Red Light Cams Are Now Operating Just Over the Bronx Border in Mount Vernon (LoHud)
    • FiveThirtyEight Looks at Vision Zero, From the Invention of "Jaywalking" to the 85th Percentile

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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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