Today’s Headlines
- Cuomo Admin Gives Up Push to Use Clean Water Funds on TZB Construction (NYT, Capital, TU, LoHud)
- Cuomo Port Appointee Interested in Tolls (Capital), Unified Fares (WCBS), Moving Buses to NJ (Crain's)
- Cab Driver Jumps Curb, Smashes Midtown Bus Shelter, Injuring One (DNA, WCBS, Gothamist)
- State Senator Andrew Lanza Considers Run for Staten Island District Attorney (Advance)
- De Blasio and Oklahoma City Mayor Push for Federal Transpo Bill in NYT Op-Ed
- Amtrak Service to Philly Suspended After Train Derails, Killing at Least 6 (NYT, WCAU, Amtrak)
- Observer to Christie, Cuomo: "It's Time to Break Out the Shovels" on Trans-Hudson Rail
- MTA Increasing Staten Island Railroad Schedule to Coordinate With New Ferry Service (Advance)
- Some Drivers Can't Read Big Red "No Parking" Signs and the Daily News Is On It (via Weekly Nabe)
- Bklyn Navy Yard to Get a Whole Lot of New Parking -- Plus a Grocery Store (NYT)
- Free Coffee and Breakfast Until 10 a.m. for Bike Commuters (Gothamist)
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