Today’s Headlines
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By
Brad Aaron
8:52 AM EDT on April 15, 2015
- City Council Budget Would Add Cops and Crossing Guards … (WSJ, Post, News)
- … But Will It Have Enough Funds to Fix NYC’s Most Dangerous Streets? (News, @TransAlt)
- With Reckless Driving Under Control, Council Convenes Hearing on Texting-While-Biking Scourge
- Judge Erika Edwards Agrees With Cy Vance, Says Killing of Cooper Stock Was “Not a Crime” (News)
- Walder: Citi Bike Revenue Stream Could Include Local Sponsorship of Docking Stations (Crain’s)
- NY Bicycling Coalition: It’s Now or Never to Make Adequate Room for Walking and Biking on the GWB
- City Plans Changes to Adjudication of Sidewalk Biking Summonses and Other Low-Level Offenses (NYT)
- Protest Against Police Violence Stops Car Traffic on Brooklyn Bridge, Dozens Arrested (NYT)
- DSNY Says New Street Sweepers Are Safer for Pedestrians (News)
- Take the MTA Bus and Subway Survey, and Don’t Complain to the MTA About It
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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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